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ReviewBiochemical Society transactions2021

The surprising structural and mechanistic dichotomy of membrane-associated phosphoglycosyl transferases.

Katherine H O'Toole, Hannah M Bernstein, Karen N Allen, Barbara Imperiali

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Review in Biochemical Society transactions, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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13 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. O-antigen polysaccharides inMicrobiology and molecular biology reviews : MMBR · 2025
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  6. Proteome-wide bioinformatic annotation and functional validation of the monotopic phosphoglycosyl transferase superfamily.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024
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  12. Defining Early Steps inbioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2023
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Katherine H O'TooleDepartment of Chemistry, Boston University, 590 Commonwealth Ave, Boston, MA 02215, U.S.A.
Hannah M BernsteinDepartment of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 31 Ames St, Cambridge, MA 02139, U.S.A.ORCID 0000-0003-0871-0376
Karen N AllenDepartment of Chemistry, Boston University, 590 Commonwealth Ave, Boston, MA 02215, U.S.A.ORCID 0000-0001-7296-0551
Barbara ImperialiDepartment of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 31 Ames St, Cambridge, MA 02139, U.S.A.ORCID 0000-0002-5749-7869

Funding

SPECIFICITY IN CO- AND POST-TRANSLATIONAL MODIFICATIONR01GM039334 · NIGMS · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI ALLEN, KAREN N., IMPERIALI, BARBARA · 1993 to 2025
$8.0M
Structure and function of the monotopic phosphoglycosyl transferase superfamily: Initiators of biosynthesis of complex bacterial glycoconjugatesR01GM131627 · NIGMS · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI ALLEN, KAREN N. · 2019 to 2025
$3.1M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM039334NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM131627
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Phosphoglycosyl transferases (PGTs) play a pivotal role at the inception of complex glycoconjugate biosynthesis pathways across all domains of life. PGTs promote the first membrane-committed step in the en bloc biosynthetic strategy by catalyzing the transfer of a phospho-sugar from a nucleoside diphospho-sugar to a membrane-resident polyprenol phosphate. Studies on the PGTs have been hampered because they are integral membrane proteins, and often prove to be recalcitrant to expression, purification and analysis. However, in recent years exciting new information has been derived on the structures and the mechanisms of PGTs, revealing the existence of two unique superfamilies of PGT enzymes that enact catalysis at the membrane interface. Genome neighborhood analysis shows that these superfamilies, the polytopic PGT (polyPGT) and monotopic PGT (monoPGT), may initiate different pathways within the same organism. Moreover, the same fundamental two-substrate reaction is enacted through two different chemical mechanisms with distinct modes of catalysis. This review highlights the structural and mechanistic divergence between the PGT enzyme superfamilies and how this is reflected in differences in regulation in their varied glycoconjugate biosynthesis pathways.

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Catalytic DomainBacterial ProteinsBiocatalysisCarbohydrate ConformationCell MembraneGlycoconjugatesGlycosyltransferasesKineticsMembrane ProteinsModels, ChemicalProtein ConformationSubstrate SpecificityBacterial ProteinsGlycoconjugatesGlycosyltransferasesMembrane Proteinsenzyme mechanismglycoconjugate biosynthesismembrane proteinsmembrane protein structurephosphogycosyl transferase

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PMID34100892
PMCPMC9206117

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