3.2.1.140 D320A site-directed mutagenesis, the mutant shows significantly reduced kcat, but unaffected Km compared with the wild-type enzyme 732092 3.2.1.140 D320N site-directed mutagenesis, the mutant shows significantly reduced kcat, but unaffected Km compared with the wild-type enzyme 732092 3.2.1.140 H263F site-directed mutagenesis, the mutant shows significantly reduced kcat compared with the wild-type enzyme 732092 3.2.1.140 additional information generation of different truncated forms of the enzyme, structure-function analysis in comparison to the wild-type, overview. The large Bifidobacterium bifidum lacto-N-biosidase and its truncated mutants are used as a model proteins to evaluate the minimal functional unit due to its interest and structural complexity 755088 3.2.1.140 additional information truncated enzyme without N-terminal signal peptide of 34 amino acids and C-terminal membrane anchor from 1065-1108 695742 3.2.1.140 Y419F site-directed mutagenesis, the mutant shows significantly reduced Km and kcat values compared with the wild-type enzyme 732092