Characterization of a novel α1,2-fucosyltransferase of Escherichia coli O128:B12 and functional investigation of its common motif

Biochemistry

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 378-387

  Li, Mei ^a,c   Liu, Xian Wei ^b,d   Shao, Jun ^a   Shen, Jie ^b   Jia, Qiang ^a   Yi, Wen ^b   Song, Jing K ^b,d   Woodward, Robert ^b   Chow, Christine S ^a   Peng, George Wang ^b  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^d SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUCOSYLATED SUGARS; LACTOSE; LACTULOSE;

ANTIGENS; ENZYMES; SIZE EXCLUSION CHROMATOGRAPHY; SUGAR (SUCROSE); SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

ALPHA 1,6 FUCOSYLTRANSFERASE; DIVALENT CATION; FRUCTOSE; FUCOSYLTRANSFERASE; GALACTOSE; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; HYBRID PROTEIN; LACTOSE; LACTULOSE; MANNOSE; METAL ION; N ACETYL BETA GLUCOSAMINIDASE; N ACETYLGALACTOSAMINE; N ACETYLGLUCOSAMINE; O ANTIGEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRUS T ANTIGEN; DISACCHARIDE; EPILACTOSE; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; GUANOSINE DIPHOSPHATE; THOMSEN FRIEDENREICH ANTIGEN; THOMSEN-FRIEDENREICH ANTIGEN; TUMOR ANTIGEN;

AFFINITY CHROMATOGRAPHY; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME KINETICS; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI B12; ESCHERICHIA COLI O128; FUCOSYLATION; GEL PERMEATION CHROMATOGRAPHY; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC LINKAGE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN MOTIF; RADIOASSAY; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; WBSJ GENE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTROSPRAY MASS SPECTROMETRY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYMOLOGY; GEL CHROMATOGRAPHY; GENETICS; KINETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIGENS, TUMOR-ASSOCIATED, CARBOHYDRATE; CHROMATOGRAPHY, GEL; DISACCHARIDES; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FUCOSYLTRANSFERASES; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; GUANOSINE DIPHOSPHATE; KINETICS; LACTOSE; LACTULOSE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; O ANTIGENS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, ELECTROSPRAY IONIZATION; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

EID: 37849037000     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi701345v     Document Type: Article

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