Altered sugar donor specificity and catalytic activity of pteridine glycosyltransferases by domain swapping or site-directed mutagenesis

BMB Reports

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 37-40

  Kim, Hye Lim ^a   Kim, Ae Hyun ^a   Park, Mi Bi ^a   Lee, Soo Woong ^a   Park, Young Shik ^a  

^a Inje University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Domain swapping; Pteridine glycosyltransferase; Site directed mutagenesis; Substrate specificity; Tetrahydrobiopterin

Indexed keywords

GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84874745954     PISSN: 19766696     EISSN: 1976670X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5483/BMBRep.2013.46.1.147     Document Type: Article

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