GgaB

• Description: galactosamine-containing minor teichoic acid biosynthesis, membrane protein
  
  

Gene name	ggaB
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	unknown
Function	biosynthesis of teichoic acid
MW, pI	106 kDa, 9.482
Gene length, protein length	2700 bp, 900 aa
Immediate neighbours	gtaB, ggaA
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU35680

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

Categories containing this gene/protein

cell wall synthesis, biosynthesis of cell wall components, membrane proteins

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family: glycosyltransferase 2 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:

• UniProt: P46918

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: ggaA-ggaB PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigA PubMed

• Regulation:

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Pierre-Philippe Freymond, Vladimir Lazarevic, Blazenka Soldo, Dimitri Karamata
Poly(glucosyl-N-acetylgalactosamine 1-phosphate), a wall teichoic acid of Bacillus subtilis 168: its biosynthetic pathway and mode of attachment to peptidoglycan.
Microbiology (Reading): 2006, 152(Pt 6);1709-1718
[PubMed:16735734] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)