Crystal structure of the capsular polysaccharide synthesizing protein CapE of Staphylococcus aureus

Bioscience Reports

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 463-474

  Miyafusa, Takamitsu ^a   Caaveiro, Jose M M ^a   Tanaka, Yoshikazu ^a,c   Tanner, Martin E ^b   Tsumoto, Kouhei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Capsular polysaccharide; Conformational change; Pathogenic bacterium; SDR enzyme; UDP sugar; X ray crystallography

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CAPE PROTEIN; SDR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BACTERIAL POLYSACCHARIDE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CAPSULE; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; CATALYSIS; COENZYME; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; NONHUMAN; POLYSACCHARIDE SYNTHESIS; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; ROSSMANN DOMAIN; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; HUMANS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; POLYSACCHARIDES, BACTERIAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 84879670752     PISSN: 01448463     EISSN: 15734935     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1042/BSR20130017     Document Type: Article

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