Engineering the product profile of a polysialyltransferase

Nature Chemical Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 437-442

  Keys, Timothy G ^a   Fuchs, Hazel L S ^a   Ehrit, Jörg ^a   Alves, Jürgen ^a   Freiberger, Friedrich ^a   Gerardy Schahn, Rita ^a  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; POLYMER; POLYSACCHARIDE; POLYSIALYLTRANSFERASE; SIALYLTRANSFERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; BIOENGINEERING; CARBOHYDRATE SYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; GENETIC DRIFT; MUTAGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING; WILD TYPE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; BINDING SITES; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES, SYNTHETIC; GENETIC DRIFT; KINETICS; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS, SEROGROUP B; POLYSACCHARIDES, BACTERIAL; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; SIALIC ACIDS; SIALYLTRANSFERASES;

EID: 84901241018     PISSN: 15524450     EISSN: 15524469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nchembio.1501     Document Type: Article

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