Cellulosomes: Highly efficient nanomachines designed to deconstruct plant cell wall complex carbohydrates

Annual Review of Biochemistry

Volumn 79, Issue , 2010, Pages 655-681

  Fontes, Carlos M G A ^a   Gilbert, Harry J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

bioenergy; cohesin; dockerin; multienzyme complexes; nanomachines; protein:protein interactions

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID DERIVATIVE; CARBOHYDRATE; CELLULOSOME; COHESIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; POLYSACCHARIDE; PROTEIN DOCKERIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CELL CYCLE PROTEIN; COHESINS; NONHISTONE PROTEIN;

BINDING AFFINITY; BIOENERGY; CATALYSIS; CELL WALL; ENZYME DEGRADATION; HYDROLYSIS; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NONHUMAN; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW; ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; CYTOLOGY; FUNGUS; METABOLISM; PLANT;

BACTERIA, ANAEROBIC; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CELL WALL; CELLULOSOMES; CHROMOSOMAL PROTEINS, NON-HISTONE; FUNGI; PLANTS;

EID: 77953631886     PISSN: 00664154     EISSN: 00664154     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-biochem-091208-085603     Document Type: Review

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