enzyme is osmotically inducible, mutants which are defective in the synthesis of the synthase have an impaired osmotic tolerance in glucose-mineral medium
trehalose acts as a global protectant against abiotic stress, accumulation of trehalose leads to increased salt, drought, and cold resistance in plants
trehalose is able to protect the integrity of the cells against a variety of environmental stresses such as desiccation, dehydration, heat, cold, and oxidation, probably via reduction of protein denaturation through protein-trehalose interactions
donor subsite interactions, enzyme-substrate binding conformation, the N-terminal loop, residues 9-22, is responsible for the more relaxed coformation of the binary enzyme-UDP-sugar complex, overview
enzyme is osmotically inducible, mutants which are defective in the synthesis of the synthase have an impaired osmotic tolerance in glucose-mineral medium
trehalose acts as a global protectant against abiotic stress, accumulation of trehalose leads to increased salt, drought, and cold resistance in plants
trehalose is able to protect the integrity of the cells against a variety of environmental stresses such as desiccation, dehydration, heat, cold, and oxidation, probably via reduction of protein denaturation through protein-trehalose interactions
purified recombinant enzyme complexed with either substrate UDP-glucose or the inactive substrate analogue UDP-2-deoxy-2-fluoroglucose, hanging drop vapour diffusion method, 100 nl droplets of 10 mg/ml protein in 20 mM Tris-HCl, pH 8.0, and 200 mM NaCl, with either 25 mM UDP-glucose and 50 mM 1-deoxy-glucose 6-phosphate or 25 mM UDP-2-deoxy-2-fluoroglucose and 20 mM glucose 6-phosphate, precipitant solution: 30% w/v PEG 4000, 200 mM ammonium acetate, 100 mM Tris-HCl, pH 8.0, 36 h, 25% ethylene glycol as cryoprotectant, X-ray diffraction structure determination and analysis at 2.0 A resolution
construction of transgenic Oryza sativa plants expressing the catalytically active enzyme as a fusion protein with trehalose-6-phosphate phosphatase of Escherichia coli under control of the ubiquitin promotor from Zea mays, the transgenic plants produce high levels of trehalose in seeds and leaves, carbohydrate profile of seeds, but not of leaves, is altered, plants show no growth inhibition or altered phenotype
construction of transgenic Oryza sativa plants expressing the catalytically active enzyme as a fusion protein with trehalose-6-phosphate phosphatase of Escherichia coli under control of the ubiquitin promotor from Zea mays, the transgenic plants produce high levels of trehalose in seeds and leaves, carbohydrate profile of seeds, but not of leaves, is altered, plants show no growth inhibition or altered phenotype, expression in human fibroblasts renders the cells less sensitive to drought compared to wild-type cells
construction of a bifunctional fusion enzyme of trehalose-6-phosphate synthetase and trehalose-6-phosphate phosphatase and expression in Escherichia coli
functional expression of the enzyme as a fusion protein with Escherichia coli trehalose-6-phosphate phosphatase in transgenic Oryza sativa plants, expression in human fibroblasts
Jang, I.C.; Oh, S.J.; Seo, J.S.; Choi, W.B.; Song, S.I.; Kim, C.H.; Kim, Y.S.; Seo, H.S.; Choi, Y.D.; Nahm, B.H.; Kim, J.K.
Expression of a bifunctional fusion of the Escherichia coli genes for trehalose-6-phosphate synthase and trehalose-6-phosphate phosphatase in transgenic rice plants increases trehalose accumulation and abiotic stress tolerance without stunting growth
Analysis of the otsBA operon for osmoregulatory trehalose synthesis in Escherichia coli and homology of the OtsA and OtsB proteins to the yeast trehalose-6-phosphate synthase/phosphatase complex