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Glycosyltransferase Curated Online Resource for Enzymology

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

MGD A

Spinacia oleracea · Monogalactosyldiacylglycerol synthase, chloroplastic (EC 2.4.1.46)

GT28Non-model organism · annotation 4–5Fold GT-BInverting

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Identification and annotation

CAZy familyGT28 · CAZy entry
Gene symbolMGD A
Synonyms / alternate namesMGDG synthase type A
UniProt accessionQ9SM44
NCBI Gene IDnot curated
Source speciesSpinacia oleracea
Taxonomic domainEukaryota
UniProt annotation level5

Function and localisation

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

Structure and mechanism

Fold typeGT-B
Catalytic mechanismInverting
Cation dependenceNo (Zn2+ structural only)
Oligomeric statehomodimer
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
Acceptor CCD / GlycoCTnot curated

Protein sequences

Full protein sequence

522 aa
MSHPSTVTSEPSNLLDFVPKLGNFVLNSSLHGNNSNGYSSFSSNSVHFGGLATQNRYKFVNSLSFSKEGSNLKRILSDFNRVIRLHCDRIPLGFSSIGLNSGESNGVSDNGHGVLEDVRVPVNAVEPESPKRVLILMSDTGGGHRASAEAIKAAFNEEFGDDYQVFVTDLWSEHTPWPFNQLPRSYNFLVKHGPLWKMMYYGTSPRVIHQSNFAATSVFIAREVARGLMKYQPDIIISVHPLMQHVPLRILRGRGLLEKIVFTTVVTDLSTCHPTWFHKLVTRCYCPSNEVAKRATKAGLQPSQIKVYGLPVRPSFVRSVRPKNELRKELGMDEHLPAVLLMGGGEGMGPIEATARALGNALYDANLGEPTGQLLVICGRNKKLAGKLSSIDWKIPVQVKGFVTKIEECMGACDCIITKAGPGTIAEAMIRGLPIILNDYIAGQEAGNVPYVIENGIGKYLKSPKEIAKTVSQWFGPKANELQIMSQNALKHARPDAVFKIVHDLDELVRQKIFVRQYSCAA

Catalytic domain sequence

378 aa
VLILMSDTGGGHRASAEAIKAAFNEEFGDDYQVFVTDLWSEHTPWPFNQLPRSYNFLVKHGPLWKMMYYGTSPRVIHQSNFAATSVFIAREVARGLMKYQPDIIISVHPLMQHVPLRILRGRGLLEKIVFTTVVTDLSTCHPTWFHKLVTRCYCPSNEVAKRATKAGLQPSQIKVYGLPVRPSFVRSVRPKNELRKELGMDEHLPAVLLMGGGEGMGPIEATARALGNALYDANLGEPTGQLLVICGRNKKLAGKLSSIDWKIPVQVKGFVTKIEECMGACDCIITKAGPGTIAEAMIRGLPIILNDYIAGQEAGNVPYVIENGIGKYLKSPKEIAKTVSQWFGPKANELQIMSQNALKHARPDAVFKIVHDLDELVR