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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: FEMS Microbiol Rev. 2016 Aug 26;41(1):49–91. doi: 10.1093/femsre/fuw036

Table 1.

Selected prokaryotic glycosylation systems discussed in this reviewa,b.

Organism Glycosyltransferase Linkage Substrates Residues modified Glycan Reference
Campylobacter jejuni PglB (GT66) N ~60 substrates Asn Heptasaccharide Nothaft and Szymanski (2010)
Helicobacter pullorum PglB1 N Peptides obtained from a reaction mixture of C. jejuni membranes Asn Pentasaccharide Jervis et al. (2010)
Haemophilus influenzae HMW1C and HMW2C (GT41) N HMW1/2 adhesins Asn Hex and di-Hex (Hex: Glc or Gal) Kawai et al. (2011)
Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae ApNGT N / O Autotransporter adhesins (preferred) Asn, Gln, Ser Glc and Gal Naegeli et al. (2014)
Campylobacter jejuni 11168 NC O Flagellin FlaA Ser, Thr Pse and derivatives Zampronio et al. (2011)
Campylobacter coli VC167 NC O Flagellin Ser, Thr Leg and derivatives Morrison and Imperiali (2014)
Burkholderia cepacia K56-2 bcal0960, PglLBc O Relaxed specificity for sugar donor and protein acceptor Serine Trisaccharide: HexNAc–HexNAc–Hex Lithgow et al. (2014)
Aeromonas hydrophila AH-3 OTase-like protein O Polar flagella Ser, Thr Pse-containing heptasaccharide Merino et al. (2014)
Clostridium difficile 630 CD0240 O Flagellin FliC Ser, Thr Modified HexNAc residues Twine et al. (2009)
Paenibacillus alvei CCM 2051T PAV2c_01630 and PAV2c_01640 O Flagellin Hag Ser, Thr Trisaccharide: Hex-HexNAc–HexNAc Janesch et al. (2016)
Neisseria meningitidis PglL O Type IV pilin Ser Disaccharide: Bac and Gal Faridmoayer et al. (2007)
Neisseria gonorrhoeae PglO O Pilin PilE Ser Trisaccharide: Bac and Gal2 Hartley et al. (2011)
Pseudomonas aeruginosa Pa5196 TfpW (GT-C) O Type IVa pilin Thr, Ser α1,5-d-Araf residues Harvey et al. (2011)
Mycobacterium tuberculosis Rv1002c O Several cell-surface glycoproteins, including protein Apa Thr α1,2-D-mannobioses Liu et al. (2013)
Staphylococcus aureus GtfA and GtfB O Human platelets incl. serine-rich adhesin for platelets (SraP) Ser GlcNAc-containing oligosaccharides Li et al. (2014)
Bacillus anthracis BA3668? O BclA spore glycoprotein Ser, Thr Serum-specific short O-glycans and large oligosaccharides Maes et al. (2016)
Bacillus subtilis 168 SunS S SunA precursor peptide of sublancin Cys Glc Wang and van der Donk (2011)
Haloferax volcanii AglB N Major archaellin FlgA1 Asn Pentasaccharide with proximal Glc Tripepi et al. (2012)
Methanococcus maripaludis S2 AglB N Major archaellins FlaB1 and FlaB2, and minor archaellin FlaB3 Asn Complex tetra- saccharide with proximal GalNAc Siu et al. (2015)
Methanococcus maripaludis S2 AglB N Major pilin EpdE Asn Archaellin tetra- saccharide + Hex, branching off from GalNAc Siu et al. (2015)
Haloferax volcanii AglB N Major adhesion pilins PilA1 and PilA2 Asn Like archaellin penta- saccharide Esquivel et al. (2016)
Thermoplasma acidophilum AglB N 6-C-sulfofucose containing cell-surface glycoproteins Asn Okta- and heptasac-charide with proximal β-Gal Vinogradov et al. (2012)
a

AglB, archaeal N-oligosaccharyltransferase; Asn, asparagine; ApNGT, A. pleuropneumoniae N-glycosyltransferase; Bac, bacillosamine; BclA, Bacillus collagen-like protein of anthracis; Cys, cysteine; Gal, galactose; Glc, glucose; GalNAc, N-acetylgalactosamine; GlcNAc, N-acetylglucosamine; Gln, glutamine; GT, glycosyltransferase family; Gtf, glycosyltransferase; Hex, hexose; HexNAc, N-acetylhexosamine; HMW, high molecular weight protein; Leg, legionaminic acid; NC, not classified; OTase, oligosaccharyltransferase; Pgl, protein glycosylation; PglB, bacterial N-oligosaccharyltransferase; Pse, pseudaminic acid; SunS, S-glycosyl-transferase; Ser, serine; SraP, serine-rich adhesin for platelets; Thr, threonine.

b

Glycan structure and composition of bacterial and archaeal S-layer glycoproteins and SCWPs are provided in Figs 2-1 to 2-4, and these systems are described in greater detail in specific chapters of the review.