ProGlyProt ID BU242 Organism Information Organism Name Parabacteroides (Bacteroides) distasonis Domain Bacteria Classification Family: Porphyromonadaceae Order: Bacteroidales Class: Bacteroidia Division or phylum: "Bacteroidetes" Taxonomic ID (NCBI) Genome Sequence (s) GeneBank EMBL Gene Information Gene Name dgpA NCBI Gene ID Protein Information Protein Name DgpA UniProtKB/SwissProt ID NCBI RefSeq EMBL-CDS UniProtKB Sequence Sequence length Subcellular Location Surface Function Most likely to be an S-layer glycoprotein as evidenced by its abundance, its similarity to known S-layers, its surface extraction and presence of an S-layer lattice on the organism. Glycosylation Status Glycosylation Type Information currently not available with us. Technique(s) used for Glycosylation Detection Pro-Q Emerald 300 Glycoprotein staining and AAL (Aleuria aurantia lectin) affinity chromatography Literatures Reference(s) 1) Fletcher, C.M., Coyne, M.J., Bentley, D.L., Villa, O.F. and Comstock, L.E. (2007) Phase-variable expression of a family of glycoproteins imparts a dynamic surface to a symbiont in its human intestinal ecosystem. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 104, 2413-2418. [PubMed: 17284602] Year of Identification 2007