Structural determinants of alternating (α1→4) and (α1→6) linkage specificity in reuteransucrase of Lactobacillus reuteri

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Meng, Xiangfeng ^a   Pijning, Tjaard ^a   Dobruchowska, Justyna M ^a   Yin, Huifang ^a   Gerwig, Gerrit J ^a   Dijkhuizen, Lubbert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTERNANSUCRASE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; GLUCAN; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE; MALTOSE; OLIGOSACCHARIDE; PANOSE; POLYSACCHARIDE; PROBIOTIC AGENT; SUCROSE;

BINDING SITE; CHEMISTRY; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYMOLOGY; HYDROLYSIS; LACTOBACILLUS REUTERI; MUTATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BINDING SITES; GLUCANS; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASES; HYDROLYSIS; LACTOBACILLUS REUTERI; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MALTOSE; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; MUTATION; OLIGOSACCHARIDES; POLYSACCHARIDES; PROBIOTICS; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; SUCROSE;

EID: 84993982710     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep35261     Document Type: Article

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