
Membrane association of monotopic phosphoglycosyl transferase underpins function
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ABSTRACT Polyprenol phosphate phosphoglycosyl transferases (PGTs) catalyze the first membrane-committed step in assembly of essential glycoconjugates. Currently there is no
structure–function information to describe how monotopic PGTs coordinate the reaction between membrane-embedded and soluble substrates. We describe the structure and mode of membrane
association of PglC, a PGT from _Campylobacter concisus_. The structure reveals a unique architecture, provides mechanistic insight and identifies ligand-binding determinants for PglC and
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and the staff at NECAT (APS) for facilitating X-ray data collection. Financial support for this work was provided by the National Institutes of Health: R01-GM039334 to B.I., the Predoctoral
Training Program in the Biological Sciences (T32-GM007287) to S.E. and the Biomolecular Pharmacology Program Grant (T32-GM008541) to L.C.R. This work is also based upon research conducted at
the Northeastern Collaborative Access Team beamlines 24-ID-E and 24-ID-C, which is funded by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences from the National Institutes of Health (P41
GM103403). AUTHOR INFORMATION Author notes * These authors contributed equally: Leah C. Ray and Debasis Das. AUTHORS AND AFFILIATIONS * Program in Biomolecular Pharmacology, Boston
University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA Leah C. Ray & Karen N. Allen * Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA Debasis Das, Sonya Entova
& Barbara Imperiali * Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA Debasis Das, Vinita Lukose & Barbara Imperiali * Department of Chemistry,
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author inPubMed Google Scholar CONTRIBUTIONS L.C.R. crystallized, collected data, determined the structure, refined and analyzed the model of PglC and performed phosphate release kinetics;
D.D. optimized expression, designed and made constructs, expressed and purified PglC, carried out lipid analysis and analyzed the structure. S.E. designed and performed SCAM analyses. V.L.
designed and purified original constructs for crystallization and A.J.L. obtained the original crystallization conditions. L.C.R., D.D. and S.E. wrote the manuscript. B.I. and K.N.A.
conceived the project, designed experiments, assisted with data analysis and interpretation, and critically edited the manuscript. CORRESPONDING AUTHORS Correspondence to Barbara Imperiali
or Karen N. Allen. ETHICS DECLARATIONS COMPETING INTERESTS The authors declare no competing interests. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION PUBLISHER’S NOTE: Springer Nature remains neutral with regard to
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