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Article: Study data from H. Ichinose et al provide new insights into biological chemistry.
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- Chemicals & Chemistry
- Article date:
- November 13, 2009
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"Arabinogalactan proteins (AGPs) are a family of plant cell surface proteoglycans and are considered to be involved in plant growth and development. Because AGPs are very complex molecules, glycoside hydrolases capable of degrading AGPs are powerful tools for analyses of the AGPs," scientists writing in the Journal of Biological Chemistry report.
"We previously reported such enzymes from Streptomyces avermitilis. Recently, a beta-L-arabinopyranosidase was purified from the culture supernatant of the bacterium, and its corresponding gene was identified. The primary structure of the protein revealed that the catalytic module was highly similar to that of glycoside ...