UgtP

• Description: UDP-glucose diacylglycerol glucosyltransferase, growth-rate dpendent inhibitor of cell division
  
  

Gene name	ugtP
Synonyms	ypfP
Essential	no
Product	UDP-glucose diacylglycerol glucosyltransferase
Function	synthesis of glycolipids and anchoring of lipoteichoic acid, inhibition of FtsZ assembly
Metabolic function and regulation of this protein in SubtiPathways: Lipid synthesis
MW, pI	43 kDa, 8.398
Gene length, protein length	1146 bp, 382 aa
Immediate neighbours	metA, cspD
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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Categories containing this gene/protein

cell division, lipid metabolism/ other, cell envelope stress proteins (controlled by SigM, W, X, Y), membrane proteins

The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU21920

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: no entry

• SubtiList entry: [1]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: UDP-glucose + 1,2-diacylglycerol = UDP + 1,2-diacyl-3-(O-beta-D-glucopyranosyl)-sn-glycerol (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Protein family:

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions: EzrA-UgtP PubMed, UgtP-UgtP PubMed

• Localization: membrane-bound protein, self-assembles into tightly wound spirals in vitro PubMed

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: P54166

• KEGG entry: [2]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon:

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation:

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Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody: