Discovery of glycosyltransferases using carbohydrate arrays and mass spectrometry

Nature Chemical Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 769-773

  Ban, Lan ^a   Pettit, Nicholas ^b   Li, Lei ^c,d   Stuparu, Andreea D ^a   Cai, Li ^b   Chen, Wenlan ^b   Guan, Wanyi ^b,c   Han, Weiqing ^d   Wang, Peng George ^d   Mrksich, Milan ^a,e  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e Northwestern University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE;

ARTICLE; CARBOHYDRATE ANALYSIS; CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME GLYCOSYLATION; ENZYME IMMOBILIZATION; ENZYME MECHANISM; ENZYME PURIFICATION; ENZYME STRUCTURE; IN VITRO STUDY; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

EID: 84865343780     PISSN: 15524450     EISSN: 15524469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nchembio.1022     Document Type: Article

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