3D Structure and Function of Glycosyltransferases Involved in N-glycan Maturation

M Nagae, Y Yamaguchi, N Taniguchi… - International journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Glycosylation is the most ubiquitous post-translational modification in eukaryotes. N-glycan
is attached to nascent glycoproteins and is processed and matured by various glycosidases …

Development of fucosyltransferase and fucosidase inhibitors

Z Tu, YN Lin, CH Lin - Chemical Society Reviews, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
L-Fucose-containing glycoconjugates are essential for a myriad of physiological and
pathological activities, such as inflammation, bacterial and viral infections, tumor metastasis …

Structural insights into the mechanism of protein O-fucosylation

E Lira-Navarrete, J Valero-González, R Villanueva… - PloS one, 2011 - journals.plos.org
Protein O-fucosylation is an essential post-translational modification, involved in the folding
of target proteins and in the role of these target proteins during embryonic development and …

Crossroads between bacterial and mammalian glycosyltransferases

I Brockhausen - Frontiers in immunology, 2014 - frontiersin.org
Bacterial glycosyltransferases (GT) often synthesize the same glycan linkages as
mammalian GT; yet, they usually have very little sequence identity. Nevertheless, enzymatic …

Characterizing human α-1, 6-fucosyltransferase (FUT8) substrate specificity and structural similarities with related fucosyltransferases

BM Boruah, R Kadirvelraj, L Liu, A Ramiah, C Li… - Journal of Biological …, 2020 - ASBMB
Mammalian Asn-linked glycans are extensively processed as they transit the secretory
pathway to generate diverse glycans on cell surface and secreted glycoproteins. Additional …

Structure of human POFUT2: insights into thrombospondin type 1 repeat fold and O‐fucosylation

CI Chen, JJ Keusch, D Klein, D Hess… - The EMBO …, 2012 - embopress.org
Protein O‐fucosylation is a post‐translational modification found on serine/threonine
residues of thrombospondin type 1 repeats (TSR). The fucose transfer is catalysed by the …

Glycosyltransferases, glycoside hydrolases: surprise, surprise!

B Henrissat, G Sulzenbacher, Y Bourne - Current opinion in structural …, 2008 - Elsevier
Several in the field—and many outside—consider that solving the three-dimensional
structures of more glycoside hydrolases (GHs) and glycosyltransferases (GTs) confines to …

Structure of Arabidopsis thaliana FUT1 Reveals a Variant of the GT-B Class Fold and Provides Insight into Xyloglucan Fucosylation

J Rocha, F Cicéron, D de Sanctis, M Lelimousin… - The Plant …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
The plant cell wall is a complex and dynamic network made mostly of cellulose,
hemicelluloses, and pectins. Xyloglucan, the major hemicellulosic component in …

Identification of a New α1,2-Fucosyltransferase Involved in O-Antigen Biosynthesis of Escherichia coli O86:B7 and Formation of H-Type 3 Blood Group Antigen

M Li, J Shen, X Liu, J Shao, W Yi, CS Chow… - Biochemistry, 2008 - ACS Publications
Escherichia coli O86 possesses high human blood group B activity because of its O-antigen
structure, sharing the human blood group B epitope. In this study, the wbwK gene of E. coli …

Helicobacter hepaticus Hh0072 gene encodes a novel α1-3-fucosyltransferase belonging to CAZy GT11 family

L Zhang, K Lau, J Cheng, H Yu, Y Li, G Sugiarto… - …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
Lewis x (Lex) and sialyl Lewis x (SLex)-containing glycans play important roles in numerous
physiological and pathological processes. The key enzyme for the final step formation of …