Functional analysis of the aglycone - binding site of the maize beta-glucosidase Zm-p60.1

• Authors: DOPITOVÁ Radka; MAZURA Pavel; JANDA Lubomír; CHALOUPKOVÁ Radka; JEŘÁBEK Petr; DAMBORSKÝ Jiří; FILIPI Tomáš; KIRAN Nagavalli S.; BRZOBOHATÝ Břetislav
• Year of publication: 2008
• Type: Article in Periodical
• Magazine / Source: FEBS Journal
• MU Faculty or unit: Faculty of Science
• Field: Biochemistry
• Keywords: aglycone-binding site; Brassica napus; substrate specificity; Zea mays; b-glucosidase
• Description: The work deals with the key amino acids determining substrate specificity in b-glucosidase Zm-p60.1. New informations about determination of substrate specificity and effect of key amino acid on function and structure have been obtained on the basis of bioinformational, structural and kinetic analysis and molecular docking data.

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