racE

168

glutamate racemase

locus: BSU_28390

Molecular weight: 29.85 kDa

pI: 4.86

Protein length: 272 aa

Gene length: 819 bp

function: peptidoglycan precursor biosynthesis

product: glutamate racemase

essential: yes

ec: 5.1.1.3

synonyms: racE, glr

List of homologs in different organisms, belongs to COG0796 (Galperin et al., 2021)

Gene

Coordinates: 2,903,217  2,904,035

Phenotypes of a mutant

• essential [Pubmed|12682299]

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The protein

Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity

• L-glutamate --> D-glutamate (according to UniProt)

Protein family

• aspartate/glutamate racemases family (with [protein|BBEE8CEC868D3B781BEA50C45935BC810EA7A4FB|yrpC] and [protein|2ABCC493C6CA847A7BC65B1200A9B6490621462A|racX], according to UniProt)

Structure

• [PDB|1ZUW] (with  D-glutamate)
• [AF|P94556]

Paralogous protein(s)

• [protein|BBEE8CEC868D3B781BEA50C45935BC810EA7A4FB|yrpC]

References

• 15347750,16271894,25777674,19309142,19227983,23929705,22383849