Probing elongating and branching β-D-galactosyltransferase activities in Leishmania parasites by making use of synthetic phosphoglycans

ACS Chemical Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 648-657

  Sizova, Olga V ^b   Ross, Andrew J ^a   Ivanova, Irina A ^a   Borodkin, Vladimir S ^a   Ferguson, Michael A J ^a   Nikolaev, Andrei V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^b N D ZELINSKY INSTITUTE OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA DEXTRO GALACTOSYLTRANSFERASE; BETA GALACTOSIDASE; ESTER DERIVATIVE; GALACTOSYLTRANSFERASE; LIPOPHOSPHOGLYCAN; OLIGOSACCHARIDE; PHOSPHODIESTER; TRITIUM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; URIDINE DIPHOSPHATE GALACTOSE;

BIOSYNTHESIS; CATALYSIS; CONFERENCE PAPER; DRUG STRUCTURE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; HYDROLYSIS; ISOTOPE LABELING; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MICROSOME; MICROSOME MEMBRANE; MOLECULAR PROBE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BETA-N-ACETYLGLUCOSAMINYLGLYCOPEPTIDE BETA-1,4-GALACTOSYLTRANSFERASE; CARBOHYDRATE CONFORMATION; ENZYME ACTIVATION; GLYCOSPHINGOLIPIDS; LEISHMANIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; PROTOZOA;

EID: 79961087840     PISSN: 15548929     EISSN: 15548937     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/cb100416j     Document Type: Conference Paper

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