Influencing the binding configuration of sucrose in the active sites of chicory fructan 1-exohydrolase and sugar beet fructan 6-exohydrolase

New Phytologist

Volumn 178, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 572-580

  Le Roy, Katrien ^a   Lammens, Willem ^a,b   Van Laere, André ^a   Van Den Ende, Wim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PHARMACEUTICAL AND PHARMACOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Fructan; Fructan exohydrolase (FEH); Invertase; Site directed mutagenesis; Sucrose

Indexed keywords

GLYCOSIDASE; SUCROSE; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ENZYME ACTIVITY; EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; MUTATION; SUCROSE; SUGAR BEET;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BEET; BINDING SITE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CHICORY; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BETA VULGARIS; BINDING SITES; CHICORY; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GLYCOSIDE HYDROLASES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PLANT PROTEINS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; SUCROSE;

BETA VULGARIS; BETA VULGARIS SUBSP. VULGARIS; CICHORIUM INTYBUS;

EID: 42249095082     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2008.02386.x     Document Type: Article

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