Chemistry: molecular biology and microbiology – Enzyme – proenzyme; compositions thereof; process for... – Transferase other than ribonuclease
Patent
1996-04-03
1998-08-25
Prouty, Rebecca E.
Chemistry: molecular biology and microbiology
Enzyme , proenzyme; compositions thereof; process for...
Transferase other than ribonuclease
536 232, C12N 910, C12N 1554
Patent
active
057982449
ABSTRACT:
The subject invention provides Sia.alpha.2,3 Gal.beta.1,4GlcNAc.alpha.2,8-sialyltransferase and an enzymatically active fragment thereof, and a nucleotide sequence encoding said sialyltransferase. The subject invention also provides an extracellularly releasable protein capable of catalyzing Sia.alpha.2,3Gal.beta.1,4GlcNAc.alpha.2,8-sialyltransfer which comprises the enzymatically active fragment of the Sia.alpha.2,3Gal.beta.1,4GlcNAc.alpha.2,8-sialyltransferase together with a signal peptide.
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Hamamoto Toshiro
Kojima Naoya
Kurosawa Nobuyuki
Tsuji Shuichi
Yoshida Yukiko
Prouty Rebecca E.
The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research
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