TagB

• Description: putative CDP-glycerol:glycerol phosphate glycerophosphotransferase
  
  

Gene name	tagB
Synonyms
Essential	yes PubMed
Product	putative CDP-glycerol:glycerol phosphate glycerophosphotransferase
Function	biosynthesis of teichoic acid
MW, pI	44 kDa, 8.925
Gene length, protein length	1143 bp, 381 aa
Immediate neighbours	tagA, tagC
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU35760

Phenotypes of a mutant

essential PubMed

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: CDP-glycerol + ManNAc-GlcNAc-PP-undecaprenol = CMP + Gro-P-ManNAc-GlcNAc-PP-undecaprenol (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Protein family: CDP-glycerol glycerophosphotransferase 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: cell membrane (according to Swiss-Prot)

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: P27621

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon:

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation:
  • repressed when phosphate is available (PhoP) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • PhoP: transcription repression PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Alex Formstone, Rut Carballido-López, Philippe Noirot, Jeffery Errington, Dirk-Jan Scheffers
Localization and interactions of teichoic acid synthetic enzymes in Bacillus subtilis.
J Bacteriol: 2008, 190(5);1812-21
[PubMed:18156271] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Amit P Bhavsar, Michael A D'Elia, Tiffany D Sahakian, Eric D Brown
The Amino terminus of Bacillus subtilis TagB possesses separable localization and functional properties.
J Bacteriol: 2007, 189(19);6816-23
[PubMed:17660278] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Amit P Bhavsar, Ray Truant, Eric D Brown
The TagB protein in Bacillus subtilis 168 is an intracellular peripheral membrane protein that can incorporate glycerol phosphate onto a membrane-bound acceptor in vitro.
J Biol Chem: 2005, 280(44);36691-700
[PubMed:16150696] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

W Liu, S Eder, F M Hulett
Analysis of Bacillus subtilis tagAB and tagDEF expression during phosphate starvation identifies a repressor role for PhoP-P.
J Bacteriol: 1998, 180(3);753-8
[PubMed:9457886] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)