Ddl

• Description: D-alanine-D-alanine ligase
  
  

Gene name	ddl
Synonyms	ddlA
Essential	yes PubMed
Product	D-alanine-D-alanine ligase
Function	peptidoglycan precursor biosynthesis
Metabolic function and regulation of this protein in SubtiPathways: Cell wall
MW, pI	38 kDa, 4.58
Gene length, protein length	1062 bp, 354 aa
Immediate neighbours	ydbP, murF
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU04560

Phenotypes of a mutant

essential PubMed

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: no entry

• SubtiList entry: [1]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: ATP + 2 D-alanine = ADP + phosphate + D-alanyl-D-alanine (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Protein family: ATP-grasp domain (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:

• Localization: cytoplasm (according to Swiss-Prot)

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: P96612

• KEGG entry: [2]

• E.C. number: 6.3.2.4

Expression and regulation

• Operon:

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation:

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody: