AmiE

• Description: N-acetylmuramyl-L-alanine amidase
  
  

Gene name	amiE
Synonyms	ybbE
Essential	no
Product	N-acetylmuramyl-L-alanine amidase
Function	recycling of cell wall material
MW, pI	49 kDa, 9.349
Gene length, protein length	1323 bp, 441 aa
Immediate neighbours	nagZ, murP
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU01670

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: no entry

• SubtiList entry: [1]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: hydrolyzes the amide bond between MurNAc and the L-alanine residue of the stem peptide PubMed

• Protein family: UPF0214 family (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

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Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: O05213

• KEGG entry: [2]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon:

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Biological materials

• Mutant:

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• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Silke Litzinger, Amanda Duckworth, Katja Nitzsche, Christian Risinger, Valentin Wittmann, Christoph Mayer
Muropeptide rescue in Bacillus subtilis involves sequential hydrolysis by beta-N-acetylglucosaminidase and N-acetylmuramyl-L-alanine amidase.
J Bacteriol: 2010, 192(12);3132-43
[PubMed:20400549] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Jonathan Reizer, Steffi Bachem, Aiala Reizer, Maryvonne Arnaud, Milton H Saier, Jörg Stülke
Novel phosphotransferase system genes revealed by genome analysis - the complete complement of PTS proteins encoded within the genome of Bacillus subtilis.
Microbiology (Reading): 1999, 145 ( Pt 12);3419-3429
[PubMed:10627040] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)