Journal articleAuthors : Motouchi, Sei (2023)
Most Gram-negative bacteria synthesize osmo-regulated periplasmic glucans (OPG) in the periplasm or extracellular space. Many pathogens lose their pathogenicity by knocking out opgG, an OPG-related gene indispensable for OPG synthesis. However, the biochemical functions of OpgG and OpgD, a paralog of OpgG, have not been elucidated. In this report, structural and functional analyses of OpgG and OpgD from Escherichia coli revealed that these proteins are β-1,2-gluca... 
