BcsA and BcsB form the catalytically active core of bacterial cellulose synthase sufficient for in vitro cellulose synthesis

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 44, 2013, Pages 17856-17861

  Omadjela, Okako ^a   Narahari, Adishesh ^a   Strumillo, Joanna ^b   Mélida, Hugo ^c   Mazur, Olga ^d   Bulone, Vincent ^c   Zimmer, Jochen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LODZ   (Poland)

^c ALBANOVA UNIVERSITY CENTER   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CELLULOSE; CYCLIC GMP; EXOPOLYSACCHARIDE; GUANOSINE PHOSPHATE; POLYSACCHARIDE; PROTEIN BCSA; PROTEIN BCSB; SYNTHETASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; URIDINE DIPHOSPHATE; URIDINE DIPHOSPHATE GLUCOSE;

ARTICLE; CARBOHYDRATE SYNTHESIS; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CATALYSIS; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI K 12; IN VITRO STUDY; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NONHUMAN; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES;

BIOPOLYMER; GLYCOBIOLOGY; IN VITRO RECONSTITUTION; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT;

BIOFILMS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELLULOSE; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASES; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES;

EID: 84887086438     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1314063110     Document Type: Article

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