N-acetylglucosaminyldiphosphoundecaprenol N-acetyl-beta-D-mannosaminyltransferase
N-acetylglucosaminyldiphosphoundecaprenol N-acetyl-beta-D-mannosaminyltransferase (EC 2.4.1.187, uridine diphosphoacetyl-mannosamineacetylglucosaminylpyrophosphorylundecaprenol acetylmannosaminyltransferase, N-acetylmannosaminyltransferase, UDP-N-acetylmannosamine:N-acetylglucosaminyl diphosphorylundecaprenol N-acetylmannosaminyltransferase, UDP-N-acetyl-D-mannosamine:N-acetyl-beta-D-glucosaminyldiphosphoundecaprenol beta-1,4-N-acetylmannosaminyltransferase) is an enzyme with systematic name UDP-N-acetyl-D-mannosamine:N-acetyl-beta-D-glucosaminyldiphosphoundecaprenol 4-beta-N-acetylmannosaminyltransferase.[1] This enzyme catalyses the following chemical reaction
- UDP-N-acetyl-D-mannosamine + N-acetyl-D-glucosaminyldiphosphoundecaprenol
UDP + N-acetyl-beta-D-mannosaminyl-(1->4)-N-acetyl-D-glucosaminyldiphosphoundecaprenol
This enzyme is involved in the biosynthesis of teichoic acid linkage units in bacterial cell walls.
References
- ↑ Murazumi, N., Kumita, K., Araki, Y. and Ito, E. (1988). "Partial purification and properties of UDP-N-acetylmannosamine:N-acetylglucosaminyl pyrophosphorylundecaprenol N-acetylmannosaminyltransferase from Bacillus subtilis". J. Biochem. (Tokyo) 104: 980–984. PMID 2977387.
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