Re- or displacement of invariant residues in the C-terminal half of the catalytic domain strongly affects catalysis by glucosyltransferase R

FEBS Letters

Volumn 582, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 491-496

  Wittrock, Sabine ^a   Swistowska, Anna Maria ^a   Collisi, Wera ^a   Hofmann, Birgit ^a   Hecht, Hans Jürgen ^a   Hofer, Bernd ^a  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR INFECTION RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Catalytic determinants; Enzyme variant; Glucansucrase; Glucosyltransferase; Permutation hypothesis; Three dimensional structure

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASE;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CATALYSIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME STRUCTURE; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN;

CATALYSIS; CATALYTIC DOMAIN; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASES; KINETICS; MODELS, MOLECULAR;

EID: 39149100630     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2007.12.040     Document Type: Article

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