Table 1.
Organism | Glycosyltransferase | Linkage | Substrates | Residues modified | Glycan | Reference |
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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) |
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.
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.