Reaction: UDP-glucose + undecaprenyl phosphate = UDP + β-D-glucosyl-1-phosphoundecaprenol
Other name(s): gtrB (gene name); bactoprenol glucosyl transferase; polyisoprenyl-phosphate glycosyltransferase; uridine diphosphoglucose-polyprenol monophosphate glucosyltransferase; UDP-glucose:polyprenol monophosphate glucosyltransferase
Systematic name: UDP-glucose:undecaprenyl-phosphate D-glucosyltransferase (configuration- inverting)
Comments: The enzyme, characterized from the bacterium Shigella flexneri and its bacteriophages, catalyses the transfer of the glucose residue from UDP-glucose to the lipid carrier undecaprenyl phosphate. Following the flipping of the lipid-bound glucose across the cytoplasmic membrane, the glucose is used in the synthesis of the organism’s O-glycan in the periplasm.
Links to other databases: BRENDA, EXPASY, KEGG, Metacyc, CAS registry number: 55576-46-0
References:
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