MurC

• Description: UDP-N-acetylmuramoyl-L-alanine synthetase
  
  

Gene name	murC
Synonyms	ytxF
Essential	yes PubMed
Product	UDP-N-acetylmuramoyl-L-alanine synthetase
Function	peptidoglycan precursor biosynthesis
MW, pI	48 kDa, 5.307
Gene length, protein length	1296 bp, 432 aa
Immediate neighbours	ytxG, ytpT
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Coordinates:

Phenotypes of a mutant

essential PubMed

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family: murCDEF 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: cytoplasm (according to Swiss-Prot), Cytoplasm (Homogeneous) PubMed

Database entries

• Structure:

• Swiss prot entry: P40778

• KEGG entry: BSU29790

• E.C. number: 6.3.2.8

Expression and regulation

• Operon:

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation:

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

1. Meile et al. (2006) Systematic localisation of proteins fused to the green fluorescent protein in Bacillus subtilis: identification of new proteins at the DNA replication factory Proteomics 6: 2135-2146. PubMed
2. Author1, Author2 & Author3 (year) Title Journal volume: page-page. PubMed