ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2024
Three-component systems represent a common pathway for extracytoplasmic addition of pentofuranose sugars into bacterial glycans.
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- O-antigen polysaccharides inMicrobiology and molecular biology reviews : MMBR · 2025Review
- More than one way to add a sugar into bacterial polysaccharides.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
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Abstract
Cell surface glycans are major drivers of antigenic diversity in bacteria. The biochemistry and molecular biology underpinning their synthesis are important in understanding host-pathogen interactions and for vaccine development with emerging chemoenzymatic and glycoengineering approaches. Structural diversity in glycostructures arises from the action of glycosyltransferases (GTs) that use an immense catalog of activated sugar donors to build the repeating unit and modifying enzymes that add further heterogeneity. Classical Leloir GTs incorporate α- or β-linked sugars by inverting or retaining mechanisms, depending on the nucleotide sugar donor. In contrast, the mechanism of known ribofuranosyltransferases is confined to β-linkages, so the existence of α-linked ribofuranose in some glycans dictates an alternative strategy. Here, we use
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