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Glycosyltransferase Curated Online Resource for Enzymology

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

wecF

Escherichia coli (strain K12) · TDP-N-acetylfucosamine:lipid II N-acetylfucosaminyltransferase (EC 2.4.1.325)

GT56Model organism · annotation ≥ 4Fold GT-BInvertingannotation < 4

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Identification and annotation

CAZy familyGT56 · CAZy entry
Gene symbolwecF
Synonyms / alternate names
  • rffT
  • yifM
  • 4-alpha-L-fucosyltransferase
  • TDP-Fuc4NAc:lipid II Fuc4NAc transferase
UniProt accessionP56258
NCBI Gene ID2847677
Source speciesEscherichia coli (strain K12)
Taxonomic domainBacteria
UniProt annotation level3 below level 4

Function and localisation

Enzyme functionTDP-N-acetylfucosamine:lipid II N-acetylfucosaminyltransferase (EC 2.4.1.325)
Subcellular locationnot curated

Structure and mechanism

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

Donor and acceptor specificity

Sugar nucleotide donor
  • dTDP-4-acetamido-4
  • 6-dideoxy-alpha-D-galactose
Donor CCD code(s)not curated
Acceptor substrate(s)
  • beta-D-ManNAcA-(1->4)-alpha-D-GlcNAc-di-trans
  • octa-cis-undecaprenyl diphosphate
Acceptor CCD / GlycoCTnot curated

Protein sequences

Full protein sequence

359 aa
MTVLIHVLGSDIPHHNRTVLRFFNDALAATSEHAREFMVVGKDDGLSDSCPALSVQFFPGKKSLAEAVIAKAKANRQQRFFFHGQFNPTLWLALLSGGIKPSQFFWHIWGADLYELSSGLRYKLFYPLRRLAQKRVGCVFATRGDLSFFAKTHPKVRGELLFFPTRMDPSLNTMANDRQREGKMTILVGNSGDRSNEHIAALRAVHQQFGDTVKVVVPMGYPPNNEAYIEEVRQAGLELFSEENLQILSEKLEFDAYLALLRQCDLGYFIFARQQGIGTLCLLIQAGIPCVLNRENPFWQDMTEQHLPVLFTTDDLNEDIVREAQRQLASVDKNTIAFFSPNYLQGWQRALAIAAREVA

Catalytic domain sequence

355 aa
MTVLIHVLGSDIPHHNRTVLRFFNDALAATSEHAREFMVVGKDDGLSDSCPALSVQFFPGKKSLAEAVIAKAKANRQQRFFFHGQFNPTLWLALLSGGIKPSQFFWHIWGADLYELSSGLRYKLFYPLRRLAQKRVGCVFATRGDLSFFAKTHPKVRGELLFFPTRMDPSLNTMANDRQREGKMTILVGNSGDRSNEHIAALRAVHQQFGDTVKVVVPMGYPPNNEAYIEEVRQAGLELFSEENLQILSEKLEFDAYLALLRQCDLGYFIFARQQGIGTLCLLIQAGIPCVLNRENPFWQDMTEQHLPVLFTTDDLNEDIVREAQRQLASVDKNTIAFFSPNYLQGWQRALAIAA