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

MGD3

Arabidopsis thaliana · Monogalactosyldiacylglycerol synthase 3, chloroplastic (EC 2.4.1.46)

GT28Model organism · annotation ≥ 4Fold GT-BInverting

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Identification and annotation

CAZy familyGT28 · CAZy entry
Gene symbolMGD3
Synonyms / alternate names
  • MGDC
  • MGDG synthase type C
UniProt accessionQ9SI93
NCBI Gene ID815657
Source speciesArabidopsis thaliana
Taxonomic domainEukaryota
UniProt annotation level5

Function and localisation

Enzyme functionMonogalactosyldiacylglycerol synthase 3, chloroplastic (EC 2.4.1.46)
Subcellular location
  • Plastid
  • chloroplast outer membrane

Structure and mechanism

Fold typeGT-B
Catalytic mechanismInverting
Cation dependenceNo
Oligomeric statenot curated
PDB structuresnot curated

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

465 aa
MMKVVSPRTRSDSITEKVFRRVYSNFNISTVEDEYIHRQRSSDYEKESRLRKRGLEDKEEVMEMEQMGAERIKTVLILMSDTGGGHRASAEAIRDAFKIEFGDDYRIIIKDVWKEYTGWPLNDMERQYKFMVKHVGLWSVAFHGTSPKWIHKSYLSALAAYYAKEIEAGLMEYKPDIIISVHPLMQHIPLWVMKWQGLHKKVIFVTVITDLNTCHRTWFHHGVSRCYCPSKEVAKRALVDGLDDSQIRVFGLPVRPSFPRTILNKNELRKELEIDLNLPAVLLMGGGEGMGPVQKTALALGDSLYNSKESNPIGQLIVICGRNKVLASTLASHEWKIPVKVRGFETQMEKWMGACDCIITKAGPGTIAEALICGLPIILNDYIPGQEKGNVPYVVDNGAGVFTRSPKETAKIVADWFSNNKEELKKMSENALKLSQPEAVFDIVKDIHHLSQQQQRIPLFNEFSY

Catalytic domain sequence

376 aa
VLILMSDTGGGHRASAEAIRDAFKIEFGDDYRIIIKDVWKEYTGWPLNDMERQYKFMVKHVGLWSVAFHGTSPKWIHKSYLSALAAYYAKEIEAGLMEYKPDIIISVHPLMQHIPLWVMKWQGLHKKVIFVTVITDLNTCHRTWFHHGVSRCYCPSKEVAKRALVDGLDDSQIRVFGLPVRPSFPRTILNKNELRKELEIDLNLPAVLLMGGGEGMGPVQKTALALGDSLYNSKESNPIGQLIVICGRNKVLASTLASHEWKIPVKVRGFETQMEKWMGACDCIITKAGPGTIAEALICGLPIILNDYIPGQEKGNVPYVVDNGAGVFTRSPKETAKIVADWFSNNKEELKKMSENALKLSQPEAVFDIVKDIHHL