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ArticleActa crystallographica. Section F, Structural biology and crystallization communications2008

Crystallization and preliminary crystallographic analysis of mannosyl-3-phosphoglycerate synthase from Rubrobacter xylanophilus.

Bebiana Sá-Moura, Luciana Albuquerque, Nuno Empadinhas, Milton S da Costa, Pedro José Barbosa Pereira, Sandra Macedo-Ribeiro

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Article in Acta crystallographica. Section F, Structural biology and crystallization communications, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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  3. Crystallization and preliminary X-ray analysis of mannosyl-3-phosphoglycerate synthase from Thermus thermophilus HB27.Acta crystallographica. Section F, Structural biology and crystallization communications · 2009
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6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Bebiana Sá-MouraIBMC-Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal.
Luciana Albuquerque
Nuno Empadinhas
Milton S da Costa
Pedro José Barbosa Pereira
Sandra Macedo-Ribeiro
Universidade do Porto · PTUniversity of Coimbra · PT

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Rubrobacter xylanophilus is the only Gram-positive bacterium known to synthesize the compatible solute mannosylglycerate (MG), which is commonly found in hyperthermophilic archaea and some thermophilic bacteria. Unlike the salt-dependent pattern of accumulation observed in (hyper)thermophiles, in R. xylanophilus MG accumulates constitutively. The synthesis of MG in R. xylanophilus was tracked from GDP-mannose and 3-phosphoglycerate, but the genome sequence of the organism failed to reveal any of the genes known to be involved in this pathway. The native enzyme was purified and its N-terminal sequence was used to identify the corresponding gene (mpgS) in the genome of R. xylanophilus. The gene encodes a highly divergent mannosyl-3-phosphoglycerate synthase (MpgS) without relevant sequence homology to known mannosylphosphoglycerate synthases. In order to understand the specificity and enzymatic mechanism of this novel enzyme, it was expressed in Escherichia coli, purified and crystallized. The crystals thus obtained belonged to the hexagonal space group P6(5)22 and contained two protein molecules per asymmetric unit. The structure was solved by SIRAS using a mercury derivative.

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Amino Acid SequenceBase SequenceCrystallizationCrystallography, X-RayDNA PrimersElectrophoresis, Polyacrylamide GelGram-Positive BacteriaMannosyltransferasesMolecular Sequence DataProtein ConformationRecombinant ProteinsDNA Primersmannosyl-3-phosphoglycerate synthaseMannosyltransferasesRecombinant Proteins

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PMID18678952
PMCPMC2494972
OpenAlexW1982534093

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