4-O-methylation of glucuronic acid in Arabidopsis glucuronoxylan is catalyzed by a domain of unknown function family 579 protein

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 35, 2012, Pages 14253-14258

  Urbanowicz, Breeanna R ^a,c   Peña, Maria J ^a,c   Ratnaparkhe, Supriya ^a,f   Avci, Utku ^a,c   Backe, Jason ^a,c   Steet, Heather F ^a   Foston, Marcus ^c,d   Li, Hongjia ^c,e   O'Neill, Malcolm A ^a,c   Ragauskas, Arthur J ^c,d   Darvill, Alan G ^a,b,c   Wyman, Charles ^c,e   Gilbert, Harry J ^a,g   York, William S ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b Oak Ridge National Laboratory ^*  (United States)

^c OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e University of California Riverside   (United States)

^f INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^g NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biosynthesis; Recalcitrance

Indexed keywords

COBALT; GLUCOPYRANOSYLURONIC ACID; GLUCURONIC ACID; GLUCURONOXYLAN METHYLTRANSFERASE; LIGNIN; METHYL GROUP; METHYLTRANSFERASE; POLYSACCHARIDE; POLYSACCHARIDE SPECIFIC O METHYLTRANSFERASE; RECOMBINANT ENZYME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; XYLAN;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; BIOCHEMISTRY; CATALYSIS; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL WALL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOMAIN OF UNKNOWN FUNCTION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; GOLGI COMPLEX; METHYLATION; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PLANT CELL; PLANT GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; PROTEIN TARGETING; PROTEIN TRANSPORT;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; CATALYSIS; CATIONS; CELL WALL; ETHERS; GLUCURONIC ACID; GOLGI APPARATUS; LIGNIN; METHYLATION; METHYLTRANSFERASES; MUTAGENESIS; POLYSACCHARIDES; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; XYLANS;

ARABIDOPSIS;

EID: 84865541454     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1208097109     Document Type: Article

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