A novel GH13 subfamily of α-amylases with a pair of tryptophans in the helix α3 of the catalytic TIM-barrel, the LPDlx signature in the conserved sequence region v and a conserved aromatic motif at the C-terminus

Biologia (Poland)

Volumn 70, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 1284-1294

  Janeček, Štefan ^a,b   Kuchtová, Andrea ^a   Petrovičová, Soňa ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovakia)

^b Department of Marketing Communication FMK   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

a pair of adjacent tryptophans; conserved sequence regions; evolutionary relatedness; family GH13; GH13 subfamilies; unique sequence features; amylase

Indexed keywords

EID: 84950137980     PISSN: 00063088     EISSN: 13369563     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/biolog-2015-0165     Document Type: Article

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