Yeast glycogenin (Glg2p) produced in Escherichia coli is simultaneously glucosylated at two vicinal tyrosine residues but results in a reduced bacterial glycogen accumulation

European Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 271, Issue 20, 2004, Pages 3978-3989

  Albrecht, Tanja ^a   Haebel, Sophie ^a   Koch, Anke ^a   Krause, Ulrike ^a   Eckermann, Nora ^a   Steup, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Glucosylation sites; Glycogen metabolism; Glycogenin; Maltodextrins; Self glucosylation

Indexed keywords

AMYLASE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GLUCAN 1,4 ALPHA GLUCOSIDASE; GLYCOGEN; GLYCOGENIN; MALTODEXTRIN; OLIGOSACCHARIDE; TYROSINE; URIDINE DIPHOSPHATE GLUCOSE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME GLYCOSYLATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GLYCOGEN METABOLISM; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSED PHASE HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; WESTERN BLOTTING; YEAST;

BINDING SITES; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASES; GLYCOGEN; GLYCOPROTEINS; GLYCOSYLATION; POLYSACCHARIDES; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, ELECTROSPRAY IONIZATION; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION; TYROSINE; URIDINE DIPHOSPHATE GLUCOSE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA; NEGIBACTERIA; SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 7044223198     PISSN: 00142956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.2004.04333.x     Document Type: Article

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