Gut microbes Bacteroides have several demonstrated beneficial properties to their host,
such as the suppression of intestinal inflammation. Like many bacteria, Bacteroides have a …

Esterases and deacetylases active on carbohydrate ligands have been classified into 14
families based upon amino acid sequence similarities. Enzymes from carbohydrate esterase …

ABSTRACT Peptidoglycan deacetlyase (HP0310, HpPgdA) from the gram‐negative
pathogen Helicobacter pylori, is the enzyme responsible for a peptidoglycan modification …

Polysaccharide deacetylases are bacterial enzymes that catalyze the deacetylation of
acetylated sugars on the membranes of Gram-positive bacteria, allowing them to be …

Native N, N′-diacetylchitobiose deacetylase from Pyrococcus furiosus (Pf-Dac) and its
selenomethionine derivative (Se-Pf-Dac) were crystallized and analyzed in the presence …

In order to develop a structure‐based understanding of the chitinolytic pathway in
hyperthermophilic Pyrococcus species, we performed crystallographic studies on N, N …

Functional and folding constraints impose interdependence between interacting sites along
the protein chain that are envisaged through protein sequence evolution. Studying the …

Ba0331 is a putative polysaccharide deacetylase from Bacillus anthracis, the etiological
agent of the disease anthrax, that contributes to adaptation of the bacterium under extreme …

Peptidoglycan deacetylases (PGNG‐dacs) belong to the C arbohydrate E sterase F amily 4
(CE 4) and have been described as required for bacterial evasion to lysozyme and innate …

BcZBP is an LmbE-like, homohexameric, zinc-dependent deacetylase from the opportunistic
pathogen Bacillus cereus with three, thus far uncharacterized, homologues in B. anthracis …