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User:Wei Peng
Wei Peng obtained his Ph.D. at Tsinghua University (Beijing, China) with Prof. Yigong Shi and Prof. Nieng Yan. He was trained as a structural biologist using protein crystallography/cryo-EM and other tools to investigate protein functions. Currently as a postdoctoral scholar with Prof. Kim Orth at UT Southwestern Medical Center (Dallas, USA), he has been focusing on host-pathogen interactions.
Wei and colleagues discovered that the bacterial effector protein AvrB is an unprecedented glycosyltransferase (with a fold called Fido) [1]. AvrB catalyzes the transfer of rhamnose from UDP-rhamnose to a threonine residue of its protein substrate in host cells. AvrB is the founding member of glycosyltransferases with Fido fold (GT138).
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