A bifunctional glycosyltransferase from agrobacterium tumefaciens synthesizes monoglucosyl and glucuronosyl diacylglycerol under phosphate deprivation

Journal of Biological Chemistry

Volumn 289, Issue 14, 2014, Pages 10104-10114

  Semeniuk, Adrian ^a   Sohlenkamp, Christian ^b   Duda, Katarzyna ^c   Hölzl, Georg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTO DE CIENCIAS FÍSICAS   (Mexico)

^c RESEARCH CENTER BORSTEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENZYMES; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PHOSPHOLIPIDS;

ADAPTATION MECHANISM; AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; GLYCOSYL TRANSFERASE; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASES; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIUM; PHOSPHATE DEFICIENCY; PHOTOTROPHIC ORGANISMS; UDP-GLUCURONIC ACID;

GLYCEROL;

DIACYLGLYCERYL TRIMETHYLHOMOSERINE; GLUCOSYLDIGLYCERIDE; GLUCURONOSYL DIACYLGLYCEROL; GLUCURONOSYL DIACYLGLYCEROL SYNTHASE; GLYCOLIPID; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE; PHOSPHATE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; URIDINE DIPHOSPHATE GLUCOSE; URIDINE DIPHOSPHATE GLUCURONIC ACID;

AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOBACCO;

BACTERIA; BIFUNCTIONAL; CHROMATOGRAPHY; GLUCURONIC ACID; GLYCOLIPIDS; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASES; GRAM-NEGATIVE; MEMBRANE BILAYER; Q-TOF;

AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASES; GLYCOLIPIDS; PHOSPHATES; PLANT LEAVES; TOBACCO; URIDINE DIPHOSPHATE GLUCOSE; URIDINE DIPHOSPHATE GLUCURONIC ACID;

EID: 84898066635     PISSN: 00219258     EISSN: 1083351X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M113.519298     Document Type: Article

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