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

mtgA

Escherichia coli (strain K12) · Biosynthetic peptidoglycan transglycosylase (EC 2.4.99.28)

GT51Model organism · annotation ≥ 4Fold Lysozyme-typeInverting

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Identification and annotation

CAZy familyGT51 · CAZy entry
Gene symbolmtgA
Synonyms / alternate names
  • mgt
  • yrbM
  • Glycan polymerase
  • Monofunctional biosynthetic peptidoglycan transglycosylase
  • Monofunctional glycosyltransferase
  • Peptidoglycan glycosyltransferase MtgA
UniProt accessionP46022
NCBI Gene ID75206064; 947728
Source speciesEscherichia coli (strain K12)
Taxonomic domainBacteria
UniProt annotation level5

Function and localisation

Enzyme functionBiosynthetic peptidoglycan transglycosylase (EC 2.4.99.28)
Subcellular locationnot curated

Structure and mechanism

Fold typeLysozyme-type
Catalytic mechanismInverting
Cation dependenceNo
Oligomeric stateInteracts with FtsI, FtsW and FtsN
PDB structuresnot curated

Donor and acceptor specificity

Sugar nucleotide donornot curated
Donor CCD code(s)not curated
Acceptor substrate(s)
  • [GlcNAc-(1->4)-Mur2Ac(oyl-L-Ala-gamma-D-Glu-L-Lys-D-Ala-D-Ala)](n)-di-trans,octa-cis-undecaprenyl diphosphate
  • beta-D-GlcNAc-(1->4)-Mur2Ac(oyl-L-Ala-gamma-D-Glu-L-Lys-D-Ala-D-Ala)-di-trans,octa-cis-undecaprenyl diphosphate
Acceptor CCD / GlycoCTnot curated

Protein sequences

Full protein sequence

242 aa
MSKSRLTVFSFVRRFLLRLMVVLAVFWGGGIALFSVAPVPFSAVMVERQVSAWLHGNFRYVAHSDWVSMDQISPWMGLAVIAAEDQKFPEHWGFDVASIEKALAHNERNENRIRGASTISQQTAKNLFLWDGRSWVRKGLEAGLTLGIETVWSKKRILTVYLNIAEFGDGVFGVEAAAQRYFHKPASKLTRSEAALLAAVLPNPLRFKVSSPSGYVRSRQAWILRQMYQLGGEPFMQQHQLD

Catalytic domain sequence

168 aa
YVAHSDWVSMDQISPWMGLAVIAAEDQKFPEHWGFDVASIEKALAHNERNENRIRGASTISQQTAKNLFLWDGRSWVRKGLEAGLTLGIETVWSKKRILTVYLNIAEFGDGVFGVEAAAQRYFHKPASKLTRSEAALLAAVLPNPLRFKVSSPSGYVRSRQAWILRQM