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SUBMITTER: Gokey T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5864537 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Gokey Trevor T Halavaty Andrei S AS Minasov George G Anderson Wayne F WF Kuhn Misty L ML
Journal of structural biology 20180110 2
Many bacteria require l-rhamnose as a key cell wall component. This sugar is transferred to the cell wall using an activated donor dTDP-l-rhamnose, which is produced by the dTDP-l-rhamnose biosynthetic pathway. We determined the crystal structure of the second enzyme of this pathway dTDP-α-d-glucose 4,6-dehydratase (RfbB) from Bacillus anthracis. Interestingly, RfbB only crystallized in the presence of the third enzyme of the pathway RfbC; however, RfbC was not present in the crystal. Our work r ...[more]