| Literature DB >> 17206375 |
Suhong Li1, Tuoping Li, Wook-Dong Kim, Motomitsu Kitaoka, Shigeki Yoshida, Mitsutoshi Nakajima, Hideyuki Kobayashi.
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The putative raffinose synthase gene from rice was cloned and expressed in Escherichia coli. The enzyme displayed an optimum activity at 45 degrees C and pH 7.0, and a sulfhydryl group was required for its activity. The enzyme was specific for galactinol and p-nitrophenyl-alpha-D-galactoside as galactosyl donors, and sucrose, lactose, 4-beta-galactobiose, N-acetyl-D-lactosamine, trehalose and lacto-N-biose were recognized as galactosyl acceptors.Entities:
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Year: 2007 PMID: 17206375 DOI: 10.1007/s10529-006-9268-3
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Biotechnol Lett ISSN: 0141-5492 Impact factor: 2.461