Structure of the Arabidopsis glucan phosphatase LIKE SEX FOUR2 reveals a unique mechanism for starch dephosphorylation

Plant Cell

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 2302-2314

  Meekins, David A ^a   Guo, Hou Fu ^a   Husodo, Satrio ^a   Paasch, Bradley C ^a   Bridges, Travis M ^a   Santelia, Diana ^b   Kötting, Oliver ^c   Kooi, Craig W Vander ^a   Gentry, Matthew S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; DUAL SPECIFICITY PHOSPHATASE; GLUCAN; LSF2 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; MALTOHEXAOSE; OLIGOSACCHARIDE; PHOSPHATE; STARCH;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; BINDING SITES; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; DUAL-SPECIFICITY PHOSPHATASES; GLUCANS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; OLIGOSACCHARIDES; PHOSPHATES; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; STARCH; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84880938887     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: 1532298X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.113.112706     Document Type: Article

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