Arabinosyltransferase
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Arabinosyltransferase
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| Symbol | Arabinose_trans | ||||||||
| Pfam | PF04602 | ||||||||
| Pfam clan | CL0111 | ||||||||
| InterPro | IPR007680 | ||||||||
| CAZy | GT53 | ||||||||
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In molecular biology, an arabinosyltransferase is a transferase enzyme acting upon arabinose. This enzyme is involved in polymerisation of arabinogalactan (an essential component of the mycobacterial cell wall).
This enzyme has important clinical applications as it is believed to be the target of the antimycobacterial drug Ethambutol.[1]
References
- ^ Belanger AE, Besra GS, Ford ME, Mikusova K, Belisle JT, Brennan PJ, Inamine JM (October 1996). "The embAB genes of Mycobacterium avium encode an arabinosyl transferase involved in cell wall arabinan biosynthesis that is the target for the antimycobacterial drug ethambutol". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 93 (21): 11919–24. doi:10.1073/pnas.93.21.11919. PMC 38159. PMID 8876238. //www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid=38159.
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