Mannuronan C-5 epimerases suited for tailoring of specific alginate structures obtained by high-throughput screening of an epimerase mutant library

Biomacromolecules

Volumn 14, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 2657-2666

  Tøndervik, Anne ^a   Klinkenberg, Geir ^a   Aachmann, Finn L ^b   Svanem, Britt Iren Glærum ^b   Ertesvaìšg, Helga ^b   Ellingsen, Trond E ^a   Valla, Svein ^b   Skjaìšk Bræk, Gudmund ^b   Sletta, Haìšvard ^a  

^a SINTEF MATERIALS AND CHEMISTRY   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL-PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; HIGH-THROUGHPUT SCREENING; ISOLATED ENZYMES; MANNURONAN C-5 EPIMERASES; MUTANT LIBRARIES; STRUCTURAL FEATURE; WILD-TYPE ENZYMES;

ALGAE; ENZYMES;

ALGINATE;

ALGINIC ACID; ALPHA L GULURONIC ACID; EPIMERASE; MANNURONAM C5 EPIMERASE; MANNURONIC ACID; MONOMER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; HEXURONIC ACID; MANNAN; MANNURONAN C-5-EPIMERASE;

ARTICLE; AZOTOBACTER VINELANDII; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIOCHEMISTRY; BROWN ALGA; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIMERIZATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; IN VITRO STUDY; MOLECULAR LIBRARY; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; CHEMISTRY; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME ASSAY; ENZYMOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETICS; KINETICS; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; STEREOISOMERISM;

ALGINATES; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; AZOTOBACTER VINELANDII; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CARBOHYDRATE EPIMERASES; CATALYTIC DOMAIN; ENZYME ASSAYS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HEXURONIC ACIDS; HIGH-THROUGHPUT SCREENING ASSAYS; KINETICS; MANNANS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; STEREOISOMERISM;

EID: 84881573027     PISSN: 15257797     EISSN: 15264602     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bm4005194     Document Type: Article

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