1) Aah is a heptosyltransferase which transfers a heptose sugar to acceptor protein AIDA.
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1) AAH is the prototype of a new large family of bacterial protein O-glycosyltransferases that modify different substrates containing a structural motif of 19 amino acid consensus sequence. 2) Iron binding is required for AAH glycosyltransferase activity. 3) AAH and its paralogue AAH2 are heptosylating autotransporter AIDA-1 which is essential for pathogenesis and colonization in mice.
Canada Research Chair on Bacterial Animal Diseases, University of Montreal, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine St-Hyacinthe, 3200 Sicotte, St-Hyacinthe, Quebec, Canada.
1 National Institute of Biological Sciences, Beijing 102206, China. 2 National Laboratory of Biomacromolecules, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China. 3 National Institute of Biological Sciences, Beijing, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Beijing 102206, China.