The crystal structure of Erwinia amylovora levansucrase provides a snapshot of the products of sucrose hydrolysis trapped into the active site

Journal of Structural Biology

Volumn 191, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 290-298

  Wuerges, Jochen ^a   Caputi, Lorenzo ^b   Cianci, Michele ^c   Boivin, Stephane ^c   Meijers, Rob ^c   Benini, Stefano ^a  

^a FREE UNIVERSITY OF BOZEN BOLZANO   (Italy)

^b JOHN INNES CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^c EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Erwinia; Fire blight; Five bladed propeller; Fructosyltransferase; Glycoside hydrolase; Levansucrase

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; ASPARTIC ACID; BETAINE; FRUCTOSYLTRANSFERASE; GLYCINE; HISTIDINE; LEUCINE; LEVANSUCRASE; LYSINE; PHENYLALANINE; SERINE; SUCROSE; THREONINE; TRANSFERASE; TYROSINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE; HYDROLASE;

AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELECTRON; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME STRUCTURE; ERWINIA AMYLOVORA; FIRE BLIGHT; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HYDROGEN BOND; HYDROLYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN POLYMERIZATION; ROSACEAE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHEMISTRY; GLUCONACETOBACTER; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ERWINIA; ERWINIA AMYLOVORA; GLUCONACETOBACTER DIAZOTROPHICUS; MALUS X DOMESTICA; MICROBACTERIUM; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA; PYRUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; CATALYTIC DOMAIN; ERWINIA AMYLOVORA; GLUCONACETOBACTER; HEXOSYLTRANSFERASES; HYDROLASES; HYDROLYSIS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SUCROSE;

EID: 84940614598     PISSN: 10478477     EISSN: 10958657     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsb.2015.07.010     Document Type: Article

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