YqgS

• Description: polyglycerolphosphate lipoteichoic acid synthase
  
  

Gene name	yqgS
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	minor lipoteichoic acid synthase
Function	biosynthesis of lipoteichoic acid
MW, pI	73 kDa, 4.822
Gene length, protein length	1914 bp, 638 aa
Immediate neighbours	yqgT, glcK
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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Categories containing this gene/protein

cell wall synthesis, biosynthesis of cell wall components

The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU24840

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: no entry

• SubtiList entry: [1]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family: LTA synthase family (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s): LtaS, YfnI, YvgJ

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:

• Localization: localizes to the division septum PubMed

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: P54496

• KEGG entry: [2]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon:

• Expression browser: yqgS PubMed

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation:

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Reviews

Additional reviews: PubMed

Nathalie T Reichmann, Angelika Gründling
Location, synthesis and function of glycolipids and polyglycerolphosphate lipoteichoic acid in Gram-positive bacteria of the phylum Firmicutes.
FEMS Microbiol Lett: 2011, 319(2);97-105
[PubMed:21388439] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)