An acceptor-substrate binding site determining glycosyl transfer emerges from mutant analysis of a plant vacuolar invertase and a fructosyltransferase

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 69, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 47-56

  Altenbach, Denise ^a,b   Rudiño Pinera, Enrique ^c   Olvera, Clarita ^c   Boller, Thomas ^a   Wiemken, Andres ^a   Ritsema, Tita ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b BIOREBA AG   (Switzerland)

^c INSTITUTO DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

^d UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Fructosyltransferase; Invertase; Molecular modeling; Site directed mutagenesis; Sucrose; Transglycosylation

Indexed keywords

BETA FRUCTOFURANOSIDASE; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE; INULOSUCRASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CELL VACUOLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BETA-FRUCTOFURANOSIDASE; HEXOSYLTRANSFERASES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; VACUOLES;

ALLIUM CEPA; FESTUCA;

EID: 56949095609     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11103-008-9404-7     Document Type: Article

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