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Motomitsu Kitaoka

Niigata UniversityORCID 0000-0002-0083-1838Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Organism:bacteria (other)· 1 Approach:experimental assay· 1 Assay:protein structure· 1 Research Focus:protein structure prediction· 1

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Chihaya YamadaiD· 1 shared Mamoru Nishimoto· 1 shared Mayo Sato· 1 shared Shinya FushinobuiD· 1 shared

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BiochemistrybioRxivPreprintSep 16, 2026

Crystal structure of a class II UDP-glucose-hexose-1-phosphate uridylyltransferase from Bifidobacterium longum involved in human milk oligosaccharide metabolism

Mayo Sato, Chihaya Yamada, Mamoru Nishimoto…·Shinya Fushinobu

The paper determines the crystal structure of BlGalT2, a class II UDP-glucose-hexose-1-phosphate uridylyltransferase from Bifidobacterium longum, revealing its unique architecture and substrate specificity for N-acetylated sugars.

DOI 10.64898/2026.09.13.751320

bacteria (other)protein structure