Arabinosyltransferase
| Arabinosyltransferase | |||||||||
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| Identifiers | |||||||||
| Symbol | Arabinose_trans | ||||||||
| Pfam | PF04602 | ||||||||
| Pfam clan | CL0111 | ||||||||
| InterPro | IPR007680 | ||||||||
| CAZy | GT53 | ||||||||
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An arabinosyltransferase is a transferase enzyme acting upon arabinose.[1] This enzyme is involved in polymerisation of
mycobacterial
cell wall). Mycobacterially, the more precise term is arabinofuranosyltransferase, since the arabinose residues occur only in a furanose form.
This enzyme has important clinical applications as it is believed to be the target of the antimycobacterial drug ethambutol.[2]