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Family-organised sequence, structure, mechanism and substrate-specificity records for the CAZy glycosyltransferases

MGD1

Arabidopsis thaliana · Monogalactosyldiacylglycerol synthase 1, chloroplastic (EC 2.4.1.46)

GT28Model organism · annotation ≥ 4Fold GT-BInverting2 PDB structure(s)

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Identification and annotation

CAZy familyGT28 · CAZy entry
Gene symbolMGD1
Synonyms / alternate names
  • EMB2797
  • MGDA
  • MGDG synthase type A
  • Protein EMBRYO DEFECTIVE 2797
UniProt accessionO81770
NCBI Gene ID829306
Source speciesArabidopsis thaliana
Taxonomic domainEukaryota
UniProt annotation level5

Function and localisation

Enzyme functionMonogalactosyldiacylglycerol synthase 1, chloroplastic (EC 2.4.1.46)
Subcellular location
  • Plastid
  • chloroplast inner membrane

Structure and mechanism

Fold typeGT-B
Catalytic mechanismInverting
Cation dependenceNo
Oligomeric statehomodimer
PDB structures4WYI, 4X1T

Donor and acceptor specificity

Sugar nucleotide donorUDP-alpha-D-galactose
Donor CCD code(s)GDU
Acceptor substrate(s)
  • a 1,2-diacyl-sn-glycerol
  • 1,2-di-(9Z,12Z-octadecadienoyl)-sn-glycerol
  • 1-(9Z-octadecenoyl)-2-hexadecanoyl-sn-glycerol
  • 1,2-di-(9Z-octadecenoyl)-sn-glycerol
Acceptor CCD / GlycoCTnot curated

Protein sequences

Full protein sequence

533 aa
MQNPSTVTQESAAPVFDFFPRLRGLTSRNRSPCSNSDGYALSSSNALYFNGFRTLPSRRMGKTLASLSFNTKSSAGSSLRRFISDFNSFIRFHCDKVVPESFASVGGVGLSSDENGIRENGTGGVLGEEGLPLNGVEADRPKKVLILMSDTGGGHRASAEAIRAAFNQEFGDEYQVFITDLWTDHTPWPFNQLPRSYNFLVKHGTLWKMTYYGTSPRIVHQSNFAATSTFIAREIAQGLMKYQPDIIISVHPLMQHVPLRVLRSKGLLKKIVFTTVITDLSTCHPTWFHKLVTRCYCPSTEVAKRAQKAGLETSQIKVYGLPVRPSFVKPVRPKVELRRELGMDENLPAVLLMGGGEGMGPIEATARALADALYDKNLGEAVGQVLIICGRNKKLQSKLSSLDWKIPVQVKGFITKMEECMGACDCIITKAGPGTIAEAMIRGLPIILNGYIAGQEAGNVPYVVENGCGKFSKSPKEISKIVADWFGPASKELEIMSQNALRLAKPEAVFKIVHDMHELVRKKNSLPQLSCTA

Catalytic domain sequence

378 aa
KKVLILMSDTGGGHRASAEAIRAAFNQEFGDEYQVFITDLWTDHTPWPFNQLPRSYNFLVKHGTLWKMTYYGTSPRIVHQSNFAATSTFIAREIAQGLMKYQPDIIISVHPLMQHVPLRVLRSKGLLKKIVFTTVITDLSTCHPTWFHKLVTRCYCPSTEVAKRAQKAGLETSQIKVYGLPVRPSFVKPVRPKVELRRELGMDENLPAVLLMGGGEGMGPIEATARALADALYDKNLGEAVGQVLIICGRNKKLQSKLSSLDWKIPVQVKGFITKMEECMGACDCIITKAGPGTIAEAMIRGLPIILNGYIAGQEAGNVPYVVENGCGKFSKSPKEISKIVADWFGPASKELEIMSQNALRLAKPEAVFKIVHDMHEL