BshA

• Description: Glycosyltransferase involved in bacillithiol synthesis
  
  

Gene name	BshA
Synonyms	jojH, ypjH
Essential	no
Product	unknown
Function	unknown
MW, pI	41 kDa, 6.149
Gene length, protein length	1131 bp, 377 aa
Immediate neighbours	cca, ypjG
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU22460

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: no entry

• SubtiList entry: [1]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: UDP-GlcNAc + L-malate = GlcNAc(α1→2)L-malate [2]; also uses D-malate as a substrate, but with much lower affinity

• Protein family: NamA subfamily (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: P42982

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon:

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation:

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant: bshA::mls available in John_Helmann lab

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody: