A Glycolipid Glycosyltransferase with Broad Substrate Specificity from the Marine Bacterium "Candidatus Pelagibacter sp." Strain HTCC7211.

ABSTRACT: In the marine environment, phosphorus availability significantly affects the lipid composition in many cosmopolitan marine heterotrophic bacteria, including members of the SAR11 clade and the Roseobacter clade. Under phosphorus stress conditions, nonphosphorus sugar-containing glycoglycerolipids are substitutes for phospholipids in these bacteria. Although these glycoglycerolipids play an important role as surrogates for phospholipids under phosphate deprivation, glycoglycerolipid synthases in marine microbes are poorly studied. In the present study, we biochemically characterized a glycolipid glycosyltransferase (GT_cp) from the marine bacterium "Candidatus Pelagibacter sp." strain HTCC7211, a member of the SAR11 clade. Our results showed that GT_cp is ab

SUBMITTER: Wei T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8231724 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature