conserved hypothetical protein. This model represents nearly the full length of MJ1255 from Methanococcus jannaschii and of an unpublished protein from Vibrio cholerae, as well as the C-terminal half of a protein from Methanobacterium thermoautotrophicum. A small region (~50 amino acids) within the domain appears related to a family of sugar transferases. [Hypothetical proteins, Conserved]
UDP-glycosyltransferases and similar proteins. This family includes the Gtfs, a group of homologous glycosyltransferases involved in the final stages of the biosynthesis of antibiotics vancomycin and related chloroeremomycin. Gtfs transfer sugar moieties from an activated NDP-sugar donor to the oxidatively cross-linked heptapeptide core of vancomycin group antibiotics. The core structure is important for the bioactivity of the antibiotics.