Substrate Promiscuity: AglB, the Archaeal Oligosaccharyltransferase, Can Process a Variety of Lipid-Linked Glycans

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 80, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 486-496

  Cohen Rosenzweig, Chen ^a   Guan, Ziqiang ^b   Shaanan, Boaz ^a   Eichler, Jerry ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL COMPOSITIONS; FUNCTIONAL SIMILARITY; HALOFERAX VOLCANII; N-GLYCOSYLATION; OLIGOSACCHARYLTRANSFERASE; STRUCTURAL HOMOLOGY; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; TARGET PROTEINS;

ENZYMES; ESTERIFICATION; GLYCOSYLATION; PLANTS (BOTANY); PROTEINS; SUBSTRATES;

POLYSACCHARIDES;

BACTERIUM; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; PROTEIN; SUBSTRATE;

ARCHAEAL PROTEIN; DOLICHOL; DOLICHYL DIPHOSPHOOLIGOSACCHARIDE PROTEIN GLYCOTRANSFERASE; DOLICHYL-DIPHOSPHOOLIGOSACCHARIDE - PROTEIN GLYCOTRANSFERASE; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; POLYSACCHARIDE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; GENETICS; GLYCOSYLATION; HALOARCULA MARISMORTUI; HALOBACTERIUM SALINARUM; HALOFERAX VOLCANII; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARCHAEAL PROTEINS; DOLICHOL; GLYCOSYLATION; HALOARCULA MARISMORTUI; HALOBACTERIUM SALINARUM; HALOFERAX VOLCANII; HEXOSYLTRANSFERASES; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYSACCHARIDES; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84892466104     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.03191-13     Document Type: Article

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