Nature Communications (Jan 2016)

Crystal structure of E. coli lipoprotein diacylglyceryl transferase

  • Guotao Mao,
  • Yan Zhao,
  • Xusheng Kang,
  • Zhijie Li,
  • Yan Zhang,
  • Xianping Wang,
  • Fei Sun,
  • Krishnan Sankaran,
  • Xuejun C. Zhang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10198
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Bacterial lipoproteins have important biological functions, and the lipoprotien biogenesis enzyme Lgt is essential in most gram-negative bacteria. Here, the authors use structural and biochemical techniques to shed light on the function of Lgt in post-translational transacylation modification.