Donor and acceptor substrate selectivity among plant glycoside hydrolase family 32 enzymes

FEBS Journal

Volumn 276, Issue 20, 2009, Pages 5788-5798

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PHARMACEUTICAL AND PHARMACOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Fructan; Fructosyl transferase; Invertase; Structure function; Sucrose

Indexed keywords

BETA FRUCTOFURANOSIDASE; GLYCOSIDASE; HYDROLASE; TRANSFERASE;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME BINDING; ENZYME INHIBITION; ENZYME STRUCTURE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BETA-FRUCTOFURANOSIDASE; GLYCOSIDE HYDROLASES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; SUCROSE;

EID: 70349485606     PISSN: 1742464X     EISSN: 17424658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-4658.2009.07316.x     Document Type: Review

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