16426-39-4Relevant articles and documents
Investigation of the nucleotide triphosphate substrate specificity of Homo sapiens UDP-N-acetylgalactosamine pyrophosphorylase (AGX1)
Xue, Mengyang,Guan, Wanyi,Zou, Yang,Fang, Junqiang,Liu, Xian-Wei,Wang, Peng George,Wang, Fengshan
, p. 3957 - 3961 (2012)
Nucleotide sugars are essential glycosyl donors for Leloir-type glycosyltransferases. The UDP-N-acetylgalactosamine pyrophosphorylase (UDP-GalNAc PP; AGX1) from Homo sapiens catalyzes the synthesis of UDP-N-acetylgalactosamine from N-acetylgalactosamine 1-phosphate and UTP. In this Letter, we systematically studied nucleotide substrate specificity of AGX1 during its uridyltransfer reaction, and described the capability of AGX1 to catalyze dUTP and dTTP to their corresponding nucleotide sugars for the first time. Furthermore, using such a eukaryotic enzyme, we synthesized dUDP-GalNAc and dTDP-GalNAc in multiple mg scale in vitro efficiently and rapidly.
Probing the roles of conserved residues in uridyltransferase domain of Escherichia coli K12 GlmU by site-directed mutagenesis
Wang, Shuaishuai,Fu, Xuan,Liu, Yunpeng,Liu, Xian-Wei,Wang, Lin,Fang, Junqiang,Wang, Peng George
, p. 70 - 74 (2015)
N-Acetylglucosamine-1-phosphate uridyltransferase (GlmU) is a bifunctional enzyme that catalyzes both acetyltransfer and uridyltransfer reactions in the prokaryotic UDP-GlcNAc biosynthesis pathway. Our previous study demonstrated that the uridyltransferase domain of GlmU (tGlmU) exhibited a flexible substrate specificity, which could be further applied in unnatural sugar nucleotides preparation. However, the structural basis of tolerating variant substrates is still not clear. Herein, we further investigated the roles of several highly conserved amino acid residues involved in substrate binding and recognition by structure- and sequence-guided site-directed mutagenesis. Out of total 16 mutants designed, tGlmU Q76E mutant which had a novel catalytic activity to convert CTP and GlcNAc-1P into unnatural sugar nucleotide CDP-GlcNAc was identified. Furthermore, tGlmU Y103F and N169R mutants were also investigated to have enhanced uridyltransferase activities compared with wide-type tGlmU.
The enzymic conversion of glucosamine to galactosamine.
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Sequential one-pot enzymatic synthesis of oligo-N-acetyllactosamine and its multi-sialylated extensions
Chien, Wei-Ting,Liang, Chien-Fu,Yu, Ching-Ching,Lin, Chien-Hung,Li, Si-Peng,Primadona, Indah,Chen, Yu-Ju,Mong, Kwok Kong T.,Lin, Chun-Cheng
, p. 5786 - 5789 (2014)
A simple and efficient protocol for the preparative-scale synthesis of various lengths of oligo-N-acetyllactosamine (oligo-LacNAc) and its multi-sialylated extensions is described. The strategy utilizes one thermophilic bacterial thymidylyltransferase (RmlA) coupled with corresponding sugar-1-phosphate kinases to generate two uridine diphosphate sugars, UDP-galactose and UDP-N-acetylglucosamine. By incorporating glycosyltransferases, oligo-LacNAcs and their sialylated analogs were synthesized. the Partner Organisations 2014.
A novel allosteric inhibitor of the uridine diphosphate N-acetylglucosamine pyrophosphorylase from Trypanosoma brucei
Urbaniak, Michael D.,Collie, Iain T.,Fang, Wenxia,Aristotelous, Tonia,Eskilsson, Susanne,Raimi, Olawale G.,Harrison, Justin,Navratilova, Iva Hopkins,Frearson, Julie A.,Van Aalten, Daan M. F.,Ferguson, Michael A. J.
, p. 1981 - 1987 (2013)
Uridine diphosphate N-acetylglucosamine pyrophosphorylase (UAP) catalyzes the final reaction in the biosynthesis of UDP-GlcNAc, an essential metabolite in many organisms including Trypanosoma brucei, the etiological agent of Human African Trypanosomiasis. High-throughput screening of recombinant T. brucei UAP identified a UTP-competitive inhibitor with selectivity over the human counterpart despite the high level of conservation of active site residues. Biophysical characterization of the UAP enzyme kinetics revealed that the human and trypanosome enzymes both display a strictly ordered bi-bi mechanism, but with the order of substrate binding reversed. Structural characterization of the T. brucei UAP-inhibitor complex revealed that the inhibitor binds at an allosteric site absent in the human homologue that prevents the conformational rearrangement required to bind UTP. The identification of a selective inhibitory allosteric binding site in the parasite enzyme has therapeutic potential.
Characterization of a bifunctional pyranose-furanose mutase from Campylobacter jejuni 11168
Poulin, Myles B.,Nothaft, Harald,Hug, Isabelle,Feldman, Mario F.,Szymanski, Christine M.,Lowary, Todd L.
, p. 493 - 501 (2010)
UDP-galactopyranose mutases (UGM) are the enzymes responsible for the synthesis of UDP-galactofuranose (UDP-Galf) from UDP-galactopyranose (UDP-Galp). The enzyme, encoded by the glf gene, is present in bacteria, parasites, and fungi that express Galf in their glycoconjugates. Recently, a UGM homologue encoded by the cj1439 gene has been identified in Campylobacter jejuni 11168, an organism possessing no Galf-containing glycoconjugates. However, the capsular polysaccharide from this strain contains a 2-acetamido-2-deoxy-D-galactofuranose (GalfNAc) moiety. Using an in vitro high performance liquid chromatography assay and complementation studies, we characterized the activity of this UGM homologue. The enzyme, which we have renamed UDP-N-acetylgalactopyranose mutase (UNGM), has relaxed specificity and can use either UDP-Gal or UDP-GalNAc as a substrate. Complementation studies of mutase knock-outs in C. jejuni 11168 and Escherichia coli W3110, the latter containing Galf residues in its lipopolysaccharide, demonstrated that the enzyme recognizes both UDP-Gal and UDP-GalNAc in vivo. A homology model of UNGM and site-directed mutagenesis led to the identification of two active site amino acid residues involved in the recognition of the UDP-GalNAc substrate. The specificity of UNGM was characterized using a two-substrate co-incubation assay, which demonstrated, surprisingly, that UDP-Gal is a better substrate than UDP-GalNAc.
Enzymatic Synthesis of Human Milk Fucosides α1,2-Fucosyl para-Lacto-N-Hexaose and its Isomeric Derivatives
Fang, Jia-Lin,Tsai, Teng-Wei,Liang, Chin-Yu,Li, Jyun-Yi,Yu, Ching-Ching
, p. 3213 - 3219 (2018/08/06)
Enzymatic synthesis of para-lacto-N-hexaose and its isomeric structures as well as those α1,2-fucosylated variants naturally occurring in human milk oligosaccharide (HMOs) was achieved using a sequential one-pot enzymatic system. Three glycosylation routes comprising bacterial glycosyltransferases and corresponding sugar-nucleotide-generating enzymes were developed to facilitate efficient production of extended type-1 and type-2 N-acetyllactosamine (LacNAc) backbones and hybrid chains. Further fucosylation efficiency of two α1,2-fucosyltransferases on both type-1 and type-2 chains of the hexasaccharide was investigated to achieve practical synthesis of the fucosylated glycans. The availability of structurally defined HMOs offers a practical approach for investigating future biological applications. (Figure presented.).