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Neisseria meningitidis b1-4 N-acetyl-hexosaminyltransferase

Abbreviation 

NmLgtA

Source

Neisseria meningitidis MC58 

Activity

Transfer GlcNAc/GalNAc from sugar donor to Gal via an b1,4-linkage

Expression

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Purification

Expression system:    pMAL-c2X with MBP and His6-tag , E. coli BL21(DE3)

Induction condition:  0. 1 mM IPTG, 16 °C, 20 h, 200 rpm, Luria LB broth

Purification

1) Suspend cells in ice-cold 40 mL Buffer-A + 20 glycerol + 0.1% Triton-X100

2) Disrupt cells by a CF1 cell disruptor (Constant Systems), 20 kPsi, 4 °C

3) Centrifuge at 12000 x g, 4 °C, 30 min

4) Load supernatant to a 10 mL gravity column filled with 2 mL Ni-NTA resin (pre-equilibrated)

5) Wash with 50 mL Buffer-A, then 50 mM Buffer-B, finally elute with 10 mL Buffer-C.

6) Concentrate into 2.5 mL and change buffer to Buffer D using a PD-10 column. 

7) Store at -20 °C for up to 6 months

Buffers:   A: 20 mM Tris-HCl (pH 8.0), 300 mM NaCl, 10 mM imidazole;

                B: A + 15 mM imidazole; C: A + 250 mM imidazole. 

                D: 50 mM Tris-HCl (pH 8.0), 100 mM NaCl, 50 % Glycerol

Optimal Condition

37 °C

8.0

MnCl2

50 mM Tris-HCl (pH 8.0), 22 mM donor, 20 mM acceptor, 20 mM MnCl2, incubate at 37 °C for 1 h to overnight.

Temperature

pH

Metal ion:

Example condition:   

UDP-GlcNAc/GalNAc and derivative

Lac/LacNAc

Donor:

Acceptor:

Kinetics:

Substrate Specificity

  • Li Y., Xue M., et al. Donor substrate promiscuity of bacterial b1–3-Nacetyl glucosaminyltransferases and acceptor substrate flexibility of b1–4-galactosyltransferases. Bioorg Med Chem, 2016, 24, 1696.

  • Guan W., Ban L., Combining carbochips and mass spectrometry to study the donor specificity for theNeisseria meningitidisb1,3-N-acetylglucosaminyltransferase LgtA. Bioorg Med Chem Lett, 2011, 21, 5025.

References

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