Structure of full-length class I chitinase from rice revealed by X-ray crystallography and small-angle X-ray scattering

Proteins: Structure, Function and Bioinformatics

Volumn 78, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 2295-2305

  Kezuka, Yuichiro ^a   Kojima, Masaki ^b   Mizuno, Ryoji ^c   Suzuki, Kazushi ^c   Watanabe, Takeshi ^c   Nonaka, Takamasa ^a  

^a IWATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF PHARMACY AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Japan)

^c NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Antifungal activity; Chitin binding; Crystalline chitin; Interdomain linker; Subsite structure

Indexed keywords

CHITIN; CHITINASE; LECTIN; PROLINE; THREONINE; ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; ISOENZYME; N,N',N''-TRIACETYLCHITOTRIOSE; PLANT LECTIN; RCG2 PROTEIN, ORYZA SATIVA; TRISACCHARIDE; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ENZYME BINDING; ENZYME CONFORMATION; ENZYME STRUCTURE; FUNGUS GROWTH; HYDROLYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; RADIATION SCATTERING; RICE; SMALL ANGLE SCATTERING; TRANSGENIC PLANT; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; BIOLOGY; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYMOLOGY; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SOLUBILITY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; CATALYTIC DOMAIN; CHITIN; CHITINASE; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; ISOENZYMES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; ORYZA SATIVA; PLANT LECTINS; PLANT PROTEINS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN INTERACTION DOMAINS AND MOTIFS; SCATTERING, SMALL ANGLE; SOLUBILITY; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; TRISACCHARIDES;

EID: 77955778566     PISSN: 08873585     EISSN: 10970134     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/prot.22742     Document Type: Article

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