Effect of dimer dissociation on activity and thermostability of the α-glucuronidase from Geobacillus stearothermophilus: Dissecting the different oligomeric forms of family 67 glycoside hydrolases

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 186, Issue 20, 2004, Pages 6928-6937

  Shallom, Dalia ^a   Golan, Gali ^b   Shoham, Gil ^b   Shoham, Yuval ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 O METHYL DEXTRO GLUCURONIC ACID; AGUA PROTEIN; ALPHA GLUCURONIDASE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BETA GLUCURONIDASE; DIMER; GLC67A PROTEIN; GLUCURONIC ACID; GLYCOSIDASE; HEMICELLULOSE; MONOMER; OLIGOMER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; XYLOSE;

AGUA GENE; ALLOSTERISM; ARTICLE; BACILLUS; BACTERIAL GENE; CATALYSIS; CELLVIBRIO JAPONICUS; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DIMERIZATION; DISSOCIATION; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME CONFORMATION; ENZYME MECHANISM; ENZYME STABILITY; ENZYME STRUCTURE; GEOBACILLUS STEAROTHERMOPHILUS; MELTING POINT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OLIGOMERIZATION; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; THERMOSTABILITY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACILLACEAE; DIMERIZATION; ENZYME STABILITY; GLYCOSIDE HYDROLASES; HEAT; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CELLVIBRIO; CELLVIBRIO JAPONICUS; GEOBACILLUS; GEOBACILLUS STEAROTHERMOPHILUS; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 4944265460     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.186.20.6928-6937.2004     Document Type: Article

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