site-directed mutagenesis of a residue from the conserved alpha 1,3 FucT motif, low expression level in COS-7 cells, below 1% activity compared to the wild-type FucT VI
structural analysis of the FT of Helicobacter pylori by systematic C-terminal truncation reveals that up to 80 residues, including the region rich in hydrophobic and positively charged residues (434-478) and 5 of the 10 tandem repeats of 7 amino acids each (399-433) can be removed without significant change in structure and catalysis, half of the heptad repeats required to maintain both the secondary and native quaternary structures, systematic deletion of the C-terminus considerably improves the solubility of the protein, truncated forms are highly specific for type 2 sugar substrates that contain the Galbeta-1,4-GlcNAc structure, type 1 substrate Galbeta-1,3-GlcNAc is not accepted
structural analysis of the FT of Helicobacter pylori by systematic C-terminal truncation reveals that up to 80 residues, including the region rich in hydrophobic and positively charged residues (434-478) and 5 of the 10 tandem repeats of 7 amino acids each (399-433) can be removed without significant change in structure and catalysis, half of the heptad repeats required to maintain both the secondary and native quaternary structures, systematic deletion of the C-terminus considerably improves the solubility of the protein, truncated forms are highly specific for type 2 sugar substrates that contain the Galbeta-1,4-GlcNAc structure, type 1 substrate Galbeta-1,3-GlcNAc is not accepted
enzyme-deficient FucTVII-/- mice show contact hypersensitivity CHS deficiency resulting in strong or nearly complete deficiency in the complement of naive T-lymphocytes in lymph nodes for antigen-dependent activation, expansion, differentiation, and dissemination, enzyme deficiency also leads to deletion of E- and P-selectin ligands expression by Th1 and T cytotoxic 1 lymphocytes, and to annulation of T-cell trafficking
mice deficient in alpha(1,3)-fucosyltransferase-IV, i.e. FucT IV-/- mice, show a normal leukocyte rolling fraction, but increased rolling velocity, mice deficient in alpha(1,3)-fucosyltransferase-VII, i.e. FucT VII-/- mice, show a reduced leukocyte rolling fraction and increased rolling velocity