Construction of chimeric glucansucrases for analyzing substrate-binding regions that affect the structure of glucan products

Bioscience, Biotechnology and Biochemistry

Volumn 68, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1912-1920

  Funane, Kazumi ^a   Ishii, Tadashi ^b   Terasawa, Kazue ^a   Yamamoto, Tomoko ^a   Kobayashi, Mikihiko ^c  

^a NATIONAL FOOD RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b Wood Biochem Forest Forest P   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chimeric enzyme; Dextran; Dextransucrase; Glucosyltransferase; Leuconostoc mesenteroides

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITION; GENES;

CHIMERIC ENZYMES; LINKAGES; PARENTAL ENZYMES; WATER-SOLUBLE GLUCAN;

ENZYMES;

ALTERNANSUCRASE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; GLUCAN; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE; HYBRID PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CHEMISTRY; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; LEUCONOSTOC; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; SOLUBILITY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; SYNTHESIS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BINDING SITES; CATALYTIC DOMAIN; GLUCANS; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASES; LEUCONOSTOC; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SOLUBILITY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

LEUCONOSTOC; LEUCONOSTOC MESENTEROIDES;

EID: 7044272718     PISSN: 09168451     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1271/bbb.68.1912     Document Type: Article

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