Biosynthetic enzymes of unusual microbial sugars

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 543-550

  Holden, Hazel M ^a   Cook, Paul D ^b   Thoden, James B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACYLTRANSFERASE; AMINOTRANSFERASE; BACTERIUM LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; CARBOHYDRATE; ERYTHROMYCIN; GLUCOSE 6 PHOSPHATASE; MONOSACCHARIDE;

ACETYLATION; AMINATION; BORDETELLA PERTUSSIS; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; CAULOBACTER CRESCENTUS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME MECHANISM; ENZYME STRUCTURE; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; EPIMERIZATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; METHYLATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; REDUCTION; REVIEW; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; STREPTOMYCES VENEZUELAE; THERMOANAEROBACTERIUM; THERMOANAEROBACTERIUM THERMOSACCHAROLYTICUM; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS;

ACETYLTRANSFERASES; BACTERIA; CARBOHYDRATES; HUMANS; HYDRO-LYASES; TRANSAMINASES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FUNGI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 78049428649     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sbi.2010.08.002     Document Type: Review

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