{
  "id": 7801476,
  "title": "Crystal structure of a class II UDP-glucose-hexose-1-phosphate uridylyltransferase from Bifidobacterium longum involved in human milk oligosaccharide metabolism",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/16/crystal-structure-of-a-class-ii-udp-glucose-hexose-1-phosphate",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-09-16T00:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "bioRxiv",
    "slug": "biorxiv",
    "url": "https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.09.13.751320v1?rss=1"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Infant-associated bifidobacteria utilize lacto-N-biose I (LNB) and galacto-N-biose (GNB), major components of human milk oligosaccharides and intestinal mucin, respectively, through the GNB/LNB metabolic pathway. A UDP-glucose-hexose-1-phosphate uridylyltransferase (GalT) from Bifidobacterium longum JCM 1217 (BlGalT2) catalyzes a key step in this pathway. BlGalT2 belongs to class II GalTs within…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}