TuaC

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  • Description: sugar transferase

Gene name tuaC
Synonyms yvhC
Essential no
Product sugar transferase
Function biosynthesis of teichuronic acid
MW, pI 43 kDa, 9.746
Gene length, protein length 1167 bp, 389 aa
Immediate neighbours tuaD, tuaB
Get the DNA and protein sequences
(Barbe et al., 2009)
Genetic context
TuaC context.gif
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The gene

Basic information

  • Locus tag: BSU35590

Phenotypes of a mutant

Database entries

  • DBTBS entry: [1]
  • SubtiList entry: [2]

Additional information

Categories containing this gene/protein

cell wall synthesis, biosynthesis of cell wall components

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

  • Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:
  • Protein family: glycosyltransferase 1 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:
  • KEGG entry: [3]
  • E.C. number:

Additional information

Expression and regulation

  • Regulation:
    • expressed under conditions of phosphate limitation (PhoP) PubMed
  • Regulatory mechanism:
  • Additional information:

Biological materials

  • Mutant:
  • Expression vector:
  • lacZ fusion:
  • GFP fusion:
  • two-hybrid system:
  • Antibody:

Labs working on this gene/protein

Your additional remarks

References

Maryam Lahooti, Colin R Harwood
Transcriptional analysis of the Bacillus subtilis teichuronic acid operon.
Microbiology (Reading): 1999, 145 ( Pt 12);3409-3417
[PubMed:10627039] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

B Soldo, V Lazarevic, M Pagni, D Karamata
Teichuronic acid operon of Bacillus subtilis 168.
Mol Microbiol: 1999, 31(3);795-805
[PubMed:10048024] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Wei Liu, F Marion Hulett
Comparison of PhoP binding to the tuaA promoter with PhoP binding to other Pho-regulon promoters establishes a Bacillus subtilis Pho core binding site.
Microbiology (Reading): 1998, 144 ( Pt 5);1443-1450
[PubMed:9611818] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)