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fucosyltransferase III mutant enzyme shows reduced activity with a variety of acceptors, 40fold reduction in activity for Fucalpha(1,2)Galbeta(1,3)GlcNAc. 4fold reduction affinity for GDP-fucose. The single amino acid site Asp336 of FucT III and Ala349 of FucT V constitutes the only difference in the sequence of FucT III and V over the final 210 COOH-terminal amino acid residues, impacts the acceptor substrate profiles of FucT III and FuvT V
naturally occurring missense mutation in the FUT7 gene, the mutation abolishes FUT7 enzyme activity and synthesis of E-selectin binding ligands on leukocytes, and increases the expression of FUT4, the mutant shows unaltered synthesis of P-selectin binding ligand, overview
with full length UA948FucT, only 20% of total enzyme activities are localized in the soluble fraction. For UA948(1-428), this increases to 47%, respectively, indicating that truncation of the C-terminal putative alpha-helices increases FucT solubility. UA948(1-364), a mutant with the entire heptad repeat region removed, exhibits extremely low levels of enzyme activity. This indicates that the heptad repeat region is essential for enzyme activity. Construct UA948(1-371) has little enzyme activity. UA948(10-434) and UA948(1-434) completely lose activity
with full length UA948FucT, only 20% of total enzyme activities are localized in the soluble fraction. For UA948(1-428), this increases to 47%, respectively, indicating that truncation of the C-terminal putative alpha-helices increases FucT solubility. UA948(1-364), a mutant with the entire heptad repeat region removed, exhibits extremely low levels of enzyme activity. This indicates that the heptad repeat region is essential for enzyme activity. Construct UA948(1-371) has little enzyme activity. UA948(10-434) and UA948(1-434) completely lose activity
with full length UA948FucT, only 20% of total enzyme activities are localized in the soluble fraction. For UA948(1-428), this increases to 47%, respectively, indicating that truncation of the C-terminal putative alpha-helices increases FucT solubility. UA948(1-364), a mutant with the entire heptad repeat region removed, exhibits extremely low levels of enzyme activity. This indicates that the heptad repeat region is essential for enzyme activity. Construct UA948(1-371) has little enzyme activity. UA948(10-434) and UA948(1-434) completely lose activity