IspD

• Description: 2-C-methyl-D-erythritol 4-phosphate cytidylyltransferase
  
  

Gene name	ispD
Synonyms	yacM
Essential	yes PubMed
Product	2-C-methyl-D-erythritol 4-phosphate cytidylyltransferase
Function	isoprenoid biosynthesis
MW, pI	25 kDa, 5.579
Gene length, protein length	696 bp, 232 aa
Immediate neighbours	yacL, ispF
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU00900

Phenotypes of a mutant

essential PubMed

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: CTP + 2-C-methyl-D-erythritol 4-phosphate = diphosphate + 4-(cytidine 5'-diphospho)-2-C-methyl-D-erythritol (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Protein family: ispD family (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:

• Localization:

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: Q06755

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number: 2.7.7.60

Expression and regulation

• Operon: yacL-ispD-ispF PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigB PubMed, SigM PubMed

• Regulation: induced by stress (SigB) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody: