Structural Investigation of a Novel N-Acetyl Glucosamine Binding Chi-Lectin Which Reveals Evolutionary Relationship with Class III Chitinases

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Patil, Dipak N ^a   Datta, Manali ^a   Dev, Aditya ^a   Dhindwal, Sonali ^a   Singh, Nirpendra ^b   Dasauni, Pushpanjali ^b   Kundu, Suman ^b   Sharma, Ashwani K ^a   Tomar, Shailly ^a   Kumar, Pravindra ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ROORKEE   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHITIN; CHITINASE; CHITINASE LIKE LECTIN; LEPTIN; N ACETYLGLUCOSAMINE; SCAFFOLD PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CARBOHYDRATE ANALYSIS; COMPLEX FORMATION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN CARBOHYDRATE INTERACTION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STRUCTURAL HOMOLOGY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TAMARIND;

ACETYLGLUCOSAMINE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CATALYTIC DOMAIN; CHITINASE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HEMAGGLUTINATION; HEMAGGLUTININS; HUMANS; HYDROGEN BONDING; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PHYLOGENY; PLANT LECTINS; PLANT PROTEINS; PROTEIN BINDING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN; STRUCTURAL HOMOLOGY, PROTEIN; TAMARINDUS;

EID: 84878141495     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0063779     Document Type: Article

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