Mutational analysis of the active site residues of a d-psicose 3-epimerase from Agrobacterium tumefaciens

Biotechnology Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 261-268

  Kim, Hye Jung ^a   Yeom, Soo Jin ^a   Kim, Kwangsoo ^b   Rhee, Sangkee ^b   Kim, Dooil ^c   Oh, Deok Kun ^a  

^a Konkuk University   (South Korea)

^b Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^c Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology (KRIBB)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Active site; Agrobacterium tumefaciens; Circular dichroism; d Psicose 3 epimerase; Site directed mutagenesis

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE SITE; AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; PSICOSE; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

CATALYSIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FRUCTOSE; MANGANESE; MANGANESE COMPOUNDS; METAL IONS; METALS; MUTAGENESIS; POLYPEPTIDES;

DICHROISM;

ISOMERASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN BINDING; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN BINDING; RACEMASES AND EPIMERASES; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER;

AGROBACTERIUM; AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; RHIZOBIUM;

EID: 76449086473     PISSN: 01415492     EISSN: 15736776     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10529-009-0148-5     Document Type: Article

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