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  • Title: Preliminary X-ray crystallographic studies of an N-terminal domain of unknown function from a putative glycosyltransferase from Streptococcus parasanguinis.
    Author: Zhang H, Zhu F, Ding L, Zhou M, Wu R, Wu H.
    Journal: Acta Crystallogr Sect F Struct Biol Cryst Commun; 2013 May 01; 69(Pt 5):520-3. PubMed ID: 23695567.
    Abstract:
    Serine-rich repeat glycoproteins (SRRPs) belong to a growing family of bacterial adhesins; they play important roles in bacterial virulence. Fap1, the first SRRP protein to be identified, is glycosylated; while the first two steps of its glycosylation have been determined, the remaining glycosylation steps are unknown. In a search for proteins that might be relevant to the glycosylation of Fap1, a putative glycosyltransferase (GalT1) from Streptococcus parasanguinis was identified. GalT1 possesses a domain of unknown function at the N-terminus. This domain is highly conserved in bacteria and is a member of a broad superfamily. However, the structure of this domain has not been determined. Here, the conditions used to produce a recombinant version of this protein domain and to grow protein crystals are reported. The crystals obtained belonged to space group C2, with unit-cell parameters a = 71.0, b = 45.1, c = 78.6 Å, β = 109.6°, and diffracted to 1.55 Å resolution at a synchrotron X-ray source. This domain does not share sequence identity with proteins of known structures above a level of 12%.
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