Examining the molecular characteristics of glycoside hydrolase family 20 ?-N-acetylglucosaminidases with high activity.
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PROVIDER: S-EPMC6527067 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec
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Examining the molecular characteristics of glycoside hydrolase family 20 β-N-acetylglucosaminidases with high activity.
Zhang Rui R Xu Shujing S Li Xinyue X Han Xiaowei X Song Zhifeng Z Zhou Junpei J Huang Zunxi Z
Bioengineered 20191201 1
β-N-Acetylglucosaminidases (GlcNAcases) possess many important biological functions and are used for promising applications that are often hampered by low-activity enzymes. We previously demonstrated that most GlcNAcases of the glycoside hydrolase (GH) family 20 showed higher activities than those of other GH families, and we presented two novel GH 20 GlcNAcases that showed higher activities than most GlcNAcases. A highly flexible structure, which was attributed to the presence of to a high prop ...[more]
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