Surface-layer glycoproteins: An example for the diversity of bacterial glycosylation with promising impacts on nanobiotechnology

Glycobiology

Volumn 14, Issue 8, 2004, Pages

  Schäffer, Christina ^a   Messner, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

Author keywords

Bacterial glycosylation; Genomic glycosylation loci; Glycan diversity; Glycoengineering; S layer nanoglycobiology

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; GLYCAN; GLYCOCONJUGATE; GLYCOPROTEIN; HYDROLYASE; NEOGLYCOPROTEIN;

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL GENETICS; CARBOHYDRATE SYNTHESIS; CELL SURFACE; ENZYME PURIFICATION; EUBACTERIUM; EUKARYOTE EVOLUTION; GENE CLUSTER; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GLUCONEOGENESIS; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR STABILITY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; PROTEIN GLYCOSYLATION; PROTEIN ISOLATION; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW;

BACTERIA; CELL WALL; CRYSTALLIZATION; GLYCOPROTEINS; GLYCOSYLATION; NANOTECHNOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 4444231397     PISSN: 09596658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/glycob/cwh064     Document Type: Review

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