Molecular basis of lipid-linked oligosaccharide recognition and processing by bacterial oligosaccharyltransferase

M Napiórkowska, J Boilevin, T Sovdat… - Nature structural & …, 2017 - nature.com
Oligosaccharyltransferase (OST) is a membrane-integral enzyme that catalyzes the transfer
of glycans from lipid-linked oligosaccharides (LLOs) onto asparagine side chains, the first …

Structural basis of protein asn-glycosylation by oligosaccharyltransferases

D Kohda - Glycobiophysics, 2018 - Springer
Glycosylation of asparagine residues is a ubiquitous protein modification. This N-
glycosylation is essential in Eukaryotes, but principally nonessential in Prokaryotes …

All-hydrocarbon staples and their effect over peptide conformation under different force fields

B Villavicencio, R Ligabue-Braun… - Journal of Chemical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Olefinic staples enhance α-helical content and conformational stability in peptides,
maintaining a structural scaffold that allows the emulation of specific regions of protein …

Theoretical models of staurosporine and analogs uncover detailed structural information in biological solution

C Fontana, JL de Meirelles, H Verli - Journal of Molecular Graphics and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Staurosporine and its analogs (STA-analogs) are indolocarbazoles (ICZs) compounds able
to inhibit kinase proteins in a non-specific way, while present antimicrobial and cytostatic …

Transmembrane motions of PglB induced by LLO are coupled with EL5 loop conformational changes necessary for OST activity

HS Lee, W Im - Glycobiology, 2017 - academic.oup.com
N-linked glycosylation is an enzymatic reaction in which an oligosaccharide is transferred en
bloc onto an asparagine residue of an acceptor polypeptide, catalyzed by …

The lazy life of lipid-linked oligosaccharides in all life domains

PR Arantes, C Pedebos, MD Polêto… - Journal of chemical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Lipid-linked oligosaccharides (LLOs) play an important role in the N-glycosylation pathway
as the donor substrate of oligosaccharyltransferases (OSTs), which are responsible for the …

Bionanocomposites for In Situ Drug Delivery in Cancer Therapy: Early and Late Evaluations

LS Reinhardt, PR Arantes, JG Henn… - Biomedical Composites …, 2021 - Springer
Cancer is an unsolved clinical problem and a challenge for the current medical science
given the limitations of conventional therapies. Systemic therapy presents serious …

The Role of Substrate Mediated Allostery in the Catalytic Competency of the Bacterial Oligosaccharyltransferase PglB

BR Morgan, F Massi - Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The oligosaccharyltransferase of Campylobacter lari (PglB) catalyzes the glycosylation of
asparagine in the consensus sequence NXS/T, where X is any residue except proline …

Conformational dynamics and putative substrate extrusion pathways of the N-glycosylated outer membrane factor CmeC from Campylobacter jejuni

KE Newman - Biophysical Journal, 2023 - cell.com
The outer membrane factor CmeC of the efflux machinery CmeABC plays an important role
in conferring antibiotic and bile resistance to Campylobacter jejuni. Curiously, the proteins in …

Dynamics of membrane-embedded lipid-linked oligosaccharides for the three domains of life

PR Arantes, C Pedebos, L Pol-Fachin, MD Polêto… - 2019 - chemrxiv.org
Lipid-linked oligosaccharides (LLOs) are the substrates of oligosaccharyltransferases
(OSTs), enzymes that catalyze the en bloc transfer of a glycan chain during the process of N …