Structural and enzymatic analysis of TarM glycosyltransferase from Staphylococcus aureus reveals an oligomeric protein specific for the glycosylation of wall teichoic acid

Journal of Biological Chemistry

Volumn 290, Issue 15, 2015, Pages 9874-9885

  Koç, Cengiz ^a   Gerlach, David ^a   Beck, Sebastian ^a,b   Peschel, Andreas ^c   Xia, Guoqing ^a,c   Stehle, Thilo ^a,b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b German Centre for Infection Research (DZIF)   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^d VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; BIOCHEMISTRY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYMES; OLIGOMERS; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BIOSYNTHESIS PATHWAYS; ENZYMATIC REACTION; GLYCOSYL TRANSFERASE; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIUM; MUTAGENESIS EXPERIMENT; OLIGOMERIC PROTEINS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE;

GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE; TARM PROTEIN; TEICHOIC ACID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; OLIGOMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN GLYCOSYLATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STEREOCHEMISTRY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; CELL WALL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; GENETICS; GLYCOSYLATION; METABOLISM; MUTATION; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); POSIBACTERIA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BINDING SITES; CATALYTIC DOMAIN; CELL WALL; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; GLYCOSYLATION; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUTATION; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TEICHOIC ACIDS;

EID: 84927127414     PISSN: 00219258     EISSN: 1083351X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M114.619924     Document Type: Article

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