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

murG

Escherichia coli (strain K12) · UDP-N-acetylglucosamine--N-acetylmuramyl-(pentapeptide) pyrophosphoryl-undecaprenol N-acetylglucosamine transferase (EC 2.4.1.227)

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

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Identification and annotation

CAZy familyGT28 · CAZy entry
Gene symbolmurG
Synonyms / alternate namesUndecaprenyl-PP-MurNAc-pentapeptide-UDPGlcNAc GlcNAc transferase
UniProt accessionP17443
NCBI Gene ID946321
Source speciesEscherichia coli (strain K12)
Taxonomic domainBacteria
UniProt annotation level5

Function and localisation

Enzyme functionUDP-N-acetylglucosamine--N-acetylmuramyl-(pentapeptide) pyrophosphoryl-undecaprenol N-acetylglucosamine transferase (EC 2.4.1.227)
Subcellular locationnot curated

Structure and mechanism

Fold typeGT-B
Catalytic mechanismInverting
Cation dependenceNo
Oligomeric statehomodimer
PDB structures1F0K, 1NLM

Donor and acceptor specificity

Sugar nucleotide donorUDP-N-acetyl-alpha-D-glucosamine
Donor CCD code(s)UD1
Acceptor substrate(s)
  • di-trans
  • octa-cis-undecaprenyl diphospho-N-acetyl-alpha-D-muramoyl-L-alanyl-D-glutamyl-meso-2
  • 6-diaminopimeloyl-D-alanyl-D-alanine
Acceptor CCD / GlycoCTnot curated

Protein sequences

Full protein sequence

355 aa
MSGQGKRLMVMAGGTGGHVFPGLAVAHHLMAQGWQVRWLGTADRMEADLVPKHGIEIDFIRISGLRGKGIKALIAAPLRIFNAWRQARAIMKAYKPDVVLGMGGYVSGPGGLAAWSLGIPVVLHEQNGIAGLTNKWLAKIATKVMQAFPGAFPNAEVVGNPVRTDVLALPLPQQRLAGREGPVRVLVVGGSQGARILNQTMPQVAAKLGDSVTIWHQSGKGSQQSVEQAYAEAGQPQHKVTEFIDDMAAAYAWADVVVCRSGALTVSEIAAAGLPALFVPFQHKDRQQYWNALPLEKAGAAKIIEQPQLSVDAVANTLAGWSRETLLTMAERARAASIPDATERVANEVSRVARA

Catalytic domain sequence

348 aa
KRLMVMAGGTGGHVFPGLAVAHHLMAQGWQVRWLGTADRMEADLVPKHGIEIDFIRISGLRGKGIKALIAAPLRIFNAWRQARAIMKAYKPDVVLGMGGYVSGPGGLAAWSLGIPVVLHEQNGIAGLTNKWLAKIATKVMQAFPGAFPNAEVVGNPVRTDVLALPLPQQRLAGREGPVRVLVVGGSQGARILNQTMPQVAAKLGDSVTIWHQSGKGSQQSVEQAYAEAGQPQHKVTEFIDDMAAAYAWADVVVCRSGALTVSEIAAAGLPALFVPFQHKDRQQYWNALPLEKAGAAKIIEQPQLSVDAVANTLAGWSRETLLTMAERARAASIPDATERVANEVSRVA