IUBMB Enzyme Nomenclature

EC 2.7.8.12

Accepted name: teichoic acid poly(glycerol phosphate) polymerase

Reaction: n CDP-glycerol + 4-O-[(2R)-glycerophospho]-N-acetyl-β-D-mannosaminyl-(1→4)-N-acetyl-α-D-glucosaminyl-diphospho-ditrans,octacis-undecaprenol = n CMP + 4-O-{poly[(2R)-glycerophospho]-(2R)-glycerophospho}-N-acetyl-β-D-mannosaminyl-(1→4)-N-acetyl-α-D-glucosaminyl-diphospho-ditrans,octacis-undecaprenol

Other name(s): teichoic-acid synthase; cytidine diphosphoglycerol glycerophosphotransferase; poly(glycerol phosphate) polymerase; teichoic acid glycerol transferase; glycerophosphate synthetase; CGPTase; CDP-glycerol glycerophosphotransferase (ambiguous); Tag polymerase; CDP-glycerol:poly(glycerophosphate) glycerophosphotransferase; tagF (gene name); tarF (gene name) (ambiguous)

Systematic name: CDP-glycerol:4-O-[(2R)-glycerophospho]-N-acetyl-β-D-mannosaminyl-(1→4)-N-acetyl-α-D-glucosaminyl-diphospho-ditrans,octacis-undecaprenol glycerophosphotransferase

Comments: Involved in the biosynthesis of poly glycerol phosphate teichoic acids in bacterial cell walls. This enzyme adds 30-50 glycerol units to the linker molecule, but only after it has been primed with the first glycerol unit by EC 2.7.8.44, teichoic acid poly(glycerol phosphate) primase. cf. EC 2.7.8.45, teichoic acid glycerol-phosphate transferase.

Links to other databases: BRENDA, EXPASY, KEGG, MetaCyc, PDB, CAS registry number: 9076-71-5

References:

1. Burger, M.M. and Glaser, L. The synthesis of teichoic acids. I. Polyglycerophosphate. J. Biol. Chem. 239 (1964) 3168-3177. [PMID: 14245357]

2. Schertzer, J.W. and Brown, E.D. Purified, recombinant TagF protein from Bacillus subtilis 168 catalyzes the polymerization of glycerol phosphate onto a membrane acceptor in vitro. J. Biol. Chem. 278 (2003) 18002-18007. [PMID: 12637499]

3. Schertzer, J.W., Bhavsar, A.P. and Brown, E.D. Two conserved histidine residues are critical to the function of the TagF-like family of enzymes. J. Biol. Chem. 280 (2005) 36683-36690. [PMID: 16141206]

4. Pereira, M.P., Schertzer, J.W., D'Elia, M.A., Koteva, K.P., Hughes, D.W., Wright, G.D. and Brown, E.D. The wall teichoic acid polymerase TagF efficiently synthesizes poly(glycerol phosphate) on the TagB product lipid III. Chembiochem 9 (2008) 1385-1390. [PMID: 18465758]

5. Sewell, E.W., Pereira, M.P. and Brown, E.D. The wall teichoic acid polymerase TagF is non-processive in vitro and amenable to study using steady state kinetic analysis. J. Biol. Chem. 284 (2009) 21132-21138. [PMID: 19520862]

6. Lovering, A.L., Lin, L.Y., Sewell, E.W., Spreter, T., Brown, E.D. and Strynadka, N.C. Structure of the bacterial teichoic acid polymerase TagF provides insights into membrane association and catalysis. Nat. Struct. Mol. Biol. 17 (2010) 582-589. [PMID: 20400947]

7. Brown, S., Meredith, T., Swoboda, J. and Walker, S. Staphylococcus aureus and Bacillus subtilis W23 make polyribitol wall teichoic acids using different enzymatic pathways. Chem. Biol. 17 (2010) 1101-1110. [PMID: 21035733]

[EC 2.7.8.12 created 1972, modified 1982, modified 2017]


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