InterPro domain: IPR006368
General Information
- Identifier IPR006368
- Description GDP-mannose 4,6-dehydratase
- Number of genes 200
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- Associated GO terms GO:0019673 GO:0008446
Abstract
This family represent GDP-mannose 4,6-dehydratase, also known as GDP-D-mannose dehydratase. This enzyme converts GDP-mannose to GDP-4-dehydro-6-deoxy-D-mannose, the first of three steps for the conversion of GDP-mannose to GDP-fucose in animals, plants, and bacteria. In bacteria, GDP-L-fucose acts as a precursor of surface antigens such as the extracellular polysaccharide colanic acid of Escherichia coli. Excluded from this family are members of the clade that are poorly related because of highly dervied (phylogenetically long-branch) sequences, e.g. Aneurinibacillus thermoaerophilus Gmd, described as a bifunctional GDP-mannose 4,6-dehydratase/GDP-6-deoxy-D-lyxo-4-hexulose reductase [ 1 ].
1. Identification of two GDP-6-deoxy-D-lyxo-4-hexulose reductases synthesizing GDP-D-rhamnose in Aneurinibacillus thermoaerophilus L420-91T. J. Biol. Chem. 276, 5577-83