The study also suggests that fusion with the novel add-on domain might be a universal mechanism for diverse OGTs. A peptide of proper length is necessary for the in vitro O-GlcNAcylation of SRR1. Using in vivo E. coli glycosylation system, co-expression of GtfA-GtfB was observed to O-GlcNAcylate recombinant PsrP, which was also found to bind GtfA. With site-directed mutagenesis, Glu-332 of GtfA was found to be catalytically essential. While the mutation of highly conserved Glu-244 and catalytic Glu-332 to alanine completely abolished the O-GlcNAcylation activity, mutation of Ser-403 significantly diminished the activity.
Department of Pediatric Dentistry and Microbiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Schools of Dentistry and Medicine, Birmingham, Alabama 35294 Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale and School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China