NodC proteins

Geremia, R.A., Mergaert, P., Geelen, D., Van Montague, M. and Holsters, M. (1994) The NODC protein of Azorhizobium-caulinodans is an IV-acetylglucosaminyl-transferase. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 91, 2669—2673. 

Katnst, E., K. M. G. M. van der Drift, J. E. Thomas-Oates, B. J. J. Lugtenberg, and H. P. Spaink. 1995. Mass spectrometric analysis of chitin oligosaccharides prodnced hy Rhizobium NodC protein in Escherichia coli. J. Bacterial. 177 6282-6285. 

Polymerization of the 3-l,4-glucan chain is catalyzed by cellulose synthase enzymes. All known cellulose synthases are family 2 processive glycosyltrans-ferases, a ubiquitous family of enzymes which also includes chitin synthases, hyaluronan synthases, and NodC proteins (Saxena et al. 2001). Cellulose synthase sequences share a highly conserved catalytic region containing the D, D, D,... 

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