Crystal structure of 6-SST/6-SFT from Pachysandra terminalis, a plant fructan biosynthesizing enzyme in complex with its acceptor substrate 6-kestose

Plant Journal

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 205-219

  Lammens, Willem ^a,b   Le Roy, Katrien ^a   Yuan, Shuguang ^a,c   Vergauwen, Rudy ^a   Rabijns, Anja ^b   Van Laere, André ^a   Strelkov, Sergei V ^b   Van Den Ende, Wim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PHARMACEUTICAL AND PHARMACOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Belgium)

^c INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR AND CELL BIOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

1 kestose; 6 kestose; fructan; fructosyltransferase; glycoside hydrolase family 32; Pachysandra terminalis; sucrose

Indexed keywords

1-KESTOSE; 6-KESTOSE; FRUCTANS; FRUCTOSYLTRANSFERASE; GLYCOSIDE HYDROLASE FAMILY 32; PACHYSANDRA TERMINALIS;

PLANTS (BOTANY); POLYSACCHARIDES; SUGAR (SUCROSE);

ENZYMES;

1 KESTOSE; 1-KESTOSE; 6 KESTOSE; 6-KESTOSE; FRUCTAN; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE; INULOSUCRASE; TRISACCHARIDE; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; KINETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PACHYSANDRA; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CATALYTIC DOMAIN; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; FRUCTANS; HEXOSYLTRANSFERASES; KINETICS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PACHYSANDRA; PLANT PROTEINS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; TRISACCHARIDES;

PACHYSANDRA; PACHYSANDRA TERMINALIS;

EID: 84859506013     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: 1365313X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-313X.2011.04858.x     Document Type: Article

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