MurC

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  • 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)
Genetic context
MurC context.gif
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The gene

Basic information

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Phenotypes of a mutant

essential PubMed

Database entries

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

Additional information

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

  • Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: ATP + UDP-N-acetylmuramate + L-alanine = ADP + phosphate + UDP-N-acetylmuramoyl-L-alanine (according to Swiss-Prot)
  • Protein family: murCDEF family (according to Swiss-Prot)
  • Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

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  • Localization: cytoplasm (according to Swiss-Prot), Cytoplasm (Homogeneous) PubMed

Database entries

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Additional information

Expression and regulation

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Biological materials

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

Labs working on this gene/protein

Your additional remarks

References

Jean-Christophe Meile, Ling Juan Wu, S Dusko Ehrlich, Jeff Errington, Philippe Noirot
Systematic localisation of proteins fused to the green fluorescent protein in Bacillus subtilis: identification of new proteins at the DNA replication factory.
Proteomics: 2006, 6(7);2135-46
[PubMed:16479537] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)


  1. Author1, Author2 & Author3 (year) Title Journal volume: page-page. PubMed