Structure of UDP-N-acetylglucosamine enolpyruvyl transferase, an enzyme essential for the synthesis of bacterial peptidoglycan, complexed with substrate UDP-N-acetylglucosamine and the drug fosfomycin.
Skarzynski, T., Mistry, A., Wonacott, A., Hutchinson, S.E., Kelly, V.A., Duncan, K.(1996) Structure 4: 1465-1474
- PubMed: 8994972 
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/s0969-2126(96)00153-0
- Primary Citation of Related Structures:  
1UAE - PubMed Abstract: 
UDP-N-acetylglucosamine enolpyruvyl transferase (MurA), catalyses the first committed step of bacterial cell wall biosynthesis and is a target for the antibiotic fosfomycin. The only other known enolpyruvyl transferase is 5-enolpyruvylshikimate-3-phosphate (EPSP) synthase, an enzyme involved in the shikimic acid pathway and the target for the herbicide glyphosate. Inhibitors of enolpyruvyl transferases are of biotechnological interest as MurA and EPSP synthase are found exclusively in plants and microbes.
Organizational Affiliation: 
Glaxo Wellcome Research and Development, Medicines Research Centre, Stevenage, UK. ts 14913@ggr.co.uk