In Archaea, which do not possess other cell wall components, the S-layer has to maintain the cell integrity and stabilize as well as to protect the cell against mechanical and osmotic stresses or extreme pH conditions. It is also predicted that the S-layer has to maintain or even determine the cell shape.
Glycosylation Status
Glycosylation Type
N- (Asn) linked
Experimentally Validated Glycosite(s) in Full Length Protein
(Signal peptide: 1-23) N102, also N132 in a second version of this strain (M. voltae PS*).
Experimentally Validated Glycosite(s ) in Mature Protein
N79, also N109 in a second version of this strain (M. voltae PS*).
AglH, AglC, AglK, AglA glycosyltransferases are involved in the biosynthesis of the glycan. AglH is a GlcNAc-1-phosphate transferase transfering first sugar to dolichol pyrophosphate. AglC and AglK add the second sugar residue and AglA adds the third sugar to the glycan. Characterized by gene deletion studies