The active site of a carbohydrate esterase displays divergent catalytic and noncatalytic binding functions

PLoS Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 0687-0697

  Montanier, Cedric ^a   Money, Victoria A ^b   Pires, Virginia M R ^c   Flint, James E ^a   Pinheiro, Benedita A ^c   Goyal, Arun ^c   Prates, José A M ^c   Izumi, Atsushi ^b   Stålbrand, Henrik ^d   Morland, Carl ^a   Cartmell, Alan ^a   Kolenova, Katarina ^d   Topakas, Evangelos ^a   Dodson, Eleanor J ^b   Bolam, David N ^a   Davies, Gideon J ^b   Fontes, Carlos M G A ^c   Gilbert, Harry J ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^c FACULDADE DE MEDICINA VETERINÁRIA   (Portugal)

^d LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBOHYDRATE; CELLULASE; ESTERASE; HYDROLASE; POLYSACCHARIDE; ADHESIN; CELLULOSE; ENZYME CE2; HEMICELLULOSE; TRYPTOPHAN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME BINDING; ENZYME STRUCTURE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BINDING SITE; CELL WALL; CLOSTRIDIUM THERMOCELLUM; ENZYME SUBUNIT; HYDROGEN BOND; PLANT CELL; SHORT SURVEY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; BACTEROIDES; CATALYSIS; CELLVIBRIO; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYMOLOGY; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

HARNESS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTEROIDES; CARBOHYDRATES; CATALYSIS; CATALYTIC DOMAIN; CELLULASE; CELLULOSE; CELLVIBRIO; ESTERASES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; POLYSACCHARIDES;

EID: 66149093843     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: 15457885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1000071     Document Type: Article

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