Requirement of acidic amino acids in the glucuronyltransferase-P (GlcAT-P) flexible loop for its enzyme activity

Glycans: Biochemistry, Characterization and Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 295-312

  Kizuka, Yasuhiko ^a,b   Nakagawa, Naoki ^a   Morita, Ippei ^a   Oka, Shogo ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b RIKEN   (Japan)

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