BMC Evolutionary Biology

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Protein engineering of conger eel galectins by tracing of molecular evolution using probable ancestral mutants

Ayumu Konno1, Shintarou Yonemaru1, Atsushi Kitagawa2, Koji Muramoto1, Tsuyoshi Shirai2 and Tomohisa Ogawa1*

Author Affiliations

1 Department of Biomolecular Science, Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai 981-8555, Japan

2 Nagahama Institute of Bio-Science and Technology and Japan Science and Technology Agency, BioInfomatic Research Division, Nagahama, Shiga 526-0829, Japan

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BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010, 10:43 doi:10.1186/1471-2148-10-43

Published: 14 February 2010

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Table S1 - Con-anc mutants in this report. * For example, E5Q indicates that Glu5 of Con-anc substituted to corresponding ConI residue, Gln.

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Table S2 - Primer list in this report. * Upper is sense primer and lower is antisense primer in each row. The substitution sites were underlined, and unique restriction enzyme sites were in italics.

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Figure S1 - Schematic representation of PA oligosaccharides used in FAC analysis. 01-23, N-linked glycans; 26-50, glycolipid glycans. The reducing terminal sugar of each carbohydrate was pyridylaminated. All PA oligosaccharides were purchased from TaKaRa Bio (Kyoto, Japan). The numbers assigned to them are based on their product numbers. Each vertex of a hexagon indicates the position of the anomeric carbons in each monosaccharide. Thin pink and thick black lines represent α and β bonds, respectively. Glc, glucose; Gal, galactose; Man, mannose; Fuc, fucose; GlcNAc, N-acetylglucosamine; GalNAc, N-acetylgalactosamine; NeuAc, N-acetylneuraminic acid; and NeuGc, N-glycolylneuraminic acid.

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