Substrate-Guided Front-Face Reaction Revealed by Combined Structural Snapshots and Metadynamics for the Polypeptide N- Acetylgalactosaminyltransferase 2.
Lira-Navarrete, E., Iglesias-Fernandez, J., Zandberg, W.F., Companon, I., Kong, Y., Corzana, F., Pinto, B.M., Clausen, H., Peregrina, J.M., Vocadlo, D., Rovira, C., Hurtado-Guerrero, R.(2014) Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 53: 8206
- PubMed: 24954443 
- DOI: 10.1002/anie.201402781
- Primary Citation of Related Structures:  
4D0T, 4D0Z, 4D11 - PubMed Abstract: 
The retaining glycosyltransferase GalNAc-T2 is a member of a large family of human polypeptide GalNAc-transferases that is responsible for the post-translational modification of many cell-surface proteins. By the use of combined structural and computational approaches, we provide the first set of structural snapshots of the enzyme during the catalytic cycle and combine these with quantum-mechanics/molecular-mechanics (QM/MM) metadynamics to unravel the catalytic mechanism of this retaining enzyme at the atomic-electronic level of detail ...