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from: THE JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

 

RbsD is the only protein whose biochemical function is unknown among the six gene products of the rbs operon involved in the active transport of ribose.

 

FucU, a paralogue of RbsD conserved from bacteria to human, is also the only protein whose function is unknown

 
 
 

Crystal Structures of RbsD Leading to the Identification of Cytoplasmic Sugar-binding Proteins with a Novel Folding Architecture

Min-Sung Kim‡§, Joon Shin¶, Weontae Lee¶, Heung-Soo Lee
, and Byung-Ha Oh

 

http://www.jbc.org/content/278/30/28173.full.pdf+html

 

 

 

 

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