Standard in vivo and in vitro A-PGS543-881 assays were performed as described under “Experimental Procedures”. The specific activity observed in the in vitro activity assay for wild type A-PGS543-881 was set as 100 % and all other values of mutant proteins were related to this value (detection limit: 0.5 %). A-PG formation in the in vivo assay was classified as: + + +, activity comparable to wild type enzyme; +, decreased activity when compared to wild type enzyme; -, no detectable A-PGS activity. The observed activity in the in vivo assay for wild type A-PGS543-881 and mutants K654S (+ + +), Y732A (+) and D765N (-) can be found visualized in supplemental figure S2.