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ArticleProtein science : a publication of the Protein Society2023

Co-conserved sequence motifs are predictive of substrate specificity in a family of monotopic phosphoglycosyl transferases.

Alyssa J Anderson, Greg J Dodge, Karen N Allen, Barbara Imperiali

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Article in Protein science : a publication of the Protein Society, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8 citing papers in PubMed, 13 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Alyssa J AndersonDepartment of Biology and Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-4871-4283
Greg J DodgeDepartment of Biology and Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-6555-8350
Karen N AllenDepartment of Chemistry, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-7296-0551
Barbara ImperialiDepartment of Biology and Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-5749-7869
Massachusetts Institute of Technology · USBoston University · US

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
Structural and functional characterization of phosphoglycosyl transferases from human pathogensF32GM134576 · NIGMS · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI DODGE, GREGORY J · 2019 to 2021
$161k
NIH HHS F32 GM134576
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Monotopic phosphoglycosyl transferases (monoPGTs) are an expansive superfamily of enzymes that catalyze the first membrane-committed step in the biosynthesis of bacterial glycoconjugates. MonoPGTs show a strong preference for their cognate nucleotide diphospho-sugar (NDP-sugar) substrates. However, despite extensive characterization of the monoPGT superfamily through previous development of a sequence similarity network comprising >38,000 nonredundant sequences, the connection between monoPGT sequence and NDP-sugar substrate specificity has remained elusive. In this work, we structurally characterize the C-terminus of a prototypic monoPGT for the first time and show that 19 C-terminal residues play a significant structural role in a subset of monoPGTs. This new structural information facilitated the identification of co-conserved sequence "fingerprints" that predict NDP-sugar substrate specificity for this subset of monoPGTs. A Hidden Markov model was generated that correctly assigned the substrate of previously unannotated monoPGTs. Together, these structural, sequence, and biochemical analyses have delivered new insight into the determinants guiding substrate specificity of monoPGTs and have provided a strategy for assigning the NDP-sugar substrate of a subset of enzymes in the superfamily that use UDP-di-N-acetyl bacillosamine. Moving forward, this approach may be applied to identify additional sequence motifs that serve as fingerprints for monoPGTs of differing UDP-sugar substrate specificity.

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SugarsTransferasesConserved SequenceSubstrate SpecificityUridine DiphosphateSugarsTransferasesUridine Diphosphatearomatic boxcoevolutiondi-N-acetylbacillosamineglycoconjugate biosynthesismembrane proteinmultiple sequence alignmentundecaprenol phosphate

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PMID37096962
PMCPMC10186338
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