TY - JOUR
T1 - A perspective on structural and mechanistic aspects of protein O-fucosylation
AU - Lira-Navarrete, Erandi
AU - Hurtado-Guerrero, Ramon
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - Protein O-fucosylation is an important post-translational modification (PTM) found in cysteine-rich repeats in proteins. Protein O-fucosyltransferases 1 and 2 (PoFUT1 and PoFUT2) are the enzymes responsible for this PTM and selectively glycosylate specific residues in epidermal growth factor-like (EGF) repeats and thrombospondin type I repeats (TSRs), respectively.Within the past six years, crystal structures of both enzymes have been reported, revealing important information on how they recognize protein substrates and achieve catalysis. Here, the structural information available today is summarized and how PoFUT1 and PoFUT2 employ different catalytic mechanisms is discussed.
AB - Protein O-fucosylation is an important post-translational modification (PTM) found in cysteine-rich repeats in proteins. Protein O-fucosyltransferases 1 and 2 (PoFUT1 and PoFUT2) are the enzymes responsible for this PTM and selectively glycosylate specific residues in epidermal growth factor-like (EGF) repeats and thrombospondin type I repeats (TSRs), respectively.Within the past six years, crystal structures of both enzymes have been reported, revealing important information on how they recognize protein substrates and achieve catalysis. Here, the structural information available today is summarized and how PoFUT1 and PoFUT2 employ different catalytic mechanisms is discussed.
KW - EGF repeats
KW - enzyme mechanisms
KW - epidermal growth factor-like repeats
KW - GDP-fucose
KW - O-fucosylation
KW - protein O-fucosyltransferases
KW - thrombospondin type I repeats
KW - TSRs
U2 - 10.1107/S2053230X18004788
DO - 10.1107/S2053230X18004788
M3 - Review
C2 - 30084393
AN - SCOPUS:85051271215
SN - 2053-230X
VL - 74
SP - 443
EP - 450
JO - Acta Crystallographica Section F: Structural Biology Communications
JF - Acta Crystallographica Section F: Structural Biology Communications
IS - 8
ER -