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

waaO

Escherichia coli (strain K12) · Lipopolysaccharide glucosyltransferase WaaO (EC 2.4.1.73)

GT8Model organism · annotation ≥ 4Fold GT-ARetaining

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Identification and annotation

CAZy familyGT8 · CAZy entry
Gene symbolwaaO
Synonyms / alternate names
  • rfaI
  • Lipopolysaccharide alpha-1,3 glucosyltransferase
  • Lipopolysaccharide glucosyltransferase II
UniProt accessionP27128
NCBI Gene ID948143
Source speciesEscherichia coli (strain K12)
Taxonomic domainBacteria
UniProt annotation level5

Function and localisation

Enzyme functionLipopolysaccharide glucosyltransferase WaaO (EC 2.4.1.73)
Subcellular locationnot curated

Structure and mechanism

Fold typeGT-A
Catalytic mechanismRetaining
Cation dependenceYes (Mg2+)
Oligomeric statenot curated
PDB structuresnot curated

Donor and acceptor specificity

Sugar nucleotide donor
  • UDP-glucose
  • UDP-alpha-D-glucose
Donor CCD code(s)UPG
Acceptor substrate(s)
  • lipopolysaccharide
  • alpha-D-Gal-(1->6)-alpha-D-Glc-(1->3)-[L-alpha-D-Hep-(1->7)]-4-O-PO3(2-)-L-alpha-D-Hep-(1->3)-4-O-PO3(2-)-L-alpha-D-Hep-(1->5)-[alpha-Kdo-(2->4)]-alpha-Kdo-(2->6)-lipid A
Acceptor CCD / GlycoCTnot curated

Protein sequences

Full protein sequence

339 aa
MQQVFFQETEFLNSVIDYDHKVETENLCLDIAYGTDKNFLFGCGISIASILKYNEGSRLCFHIFTDYFGDDDRKYFDALALQYKTRIKIYLINGDRLRSLPSTKNWTHAIYFRFVIADYFINKAPKVLYLDADIICQGTIEPLINFSFPDDKVAMVVTEGQADWWEKRAHSLGVAGIAKGYFNSGFLLINTAQWAAQQVSARAIAMLNEPEIIKKITHPDQDVLNMLLADKLIFADIKYNTQFSLNYQLKESFINPVTNDTIFIHYIGPTKPWHDWAWDYPVSQAFMEAKNASPWKNTALLKPNNSNQLRYSAKHMLKKHRYLKGFSNYLFYFIEKIKH

Catalytic domain sequence

247 aa
IAYGTDKNFLFGCGISIASILKYNEGSRLCFHIFTDYFGDDDRKYFDALALQYKTRIKIYLINGDRLRSLPSTKNWTHAIYFRFVIADYFINKAPKVLYLDADIICQGTIEPLINFSFPDDKVAMVVTEGQADWWEKRAHSLGVAGIAKGYFNSGFLLINTAQWAAQQVSARAIAMLNEPEIIKKITHPDQDVLNMLLADKLIFADIKYNTQFSLNYQLKESFINPVTNDTIFIHYIGPTKPWHDWA