Identification of active site residues in the Shigella flexneri glucosyltransferase GtrV

Molecular Membrane Biology

Volumn 27, Issue 2-3, 2010, Pages 104-113

  Moscoso, Joana A ^a   Korres, Haralambos ^a   George, Divya T ^a   Verma, Naresh K ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Active site; Glucosyltransferase; Integral protein; Shigella

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASE; PROTEIN GTRV; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN MOTIF; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACIDS; CATALYTIC DOMAIN; GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASES; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PERIPLASM; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SEQUENCE DELETION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

SHIGELLA; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI;

EID: 77950223690     PISSN: 09687688     EISSN: 14645203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/09687680903581267     Document Type: Article

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