MurQ

• Description: similar to E. coli MurQ (etherase, cleaves lactate from N-acetylmuramic acid)
  
  

Gene name	murQ
Synonyms	ybbI
Essential	no
Product	putative etherase
Function	cell wall turnover
Gene expression levels in SubtiExpress: murQ
Metabolic function and regulation of this protein in SubtiPathways: Murein recycling
MW, pI	32 kDa, 5.404
Gene length, protein length	912 bp, 304 aa
Immediate neighbours	murR, ybbJ
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
Genetic context This image was kindly provided by SubtiList
Expression at a glance   PubMed

Categories containing this gene/protein

cell wall degradation/ turnover, utilization of specific carbon sources, phosphoproteins

The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU01700

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: no entry

• SubtiList entry: [1]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: N-acetylmuramic acid 6-phosphate + H₂O = N-acetyl-D-glucosamine 6-phosphate + D-lactate (according to Swiss-Prot)

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

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification: phosphorylation on Ser-2 PubMed

• Cofactor(s):

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Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: Q45582

• KEGG entry: [2]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: murQ-murR-murP-amiE-nagZ-ybbC PubMed

• Expression browser: murQ PubMed

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation:

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• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Pierre Nicolas, Ulrike Mäder, Etienne Dervyn, Tatiana Rochat, Aurélie Leduc, Nathalie Pigeonneau, Elena Bidnenko, Elodie Marchadier, Mark Hoebeke, Stéphane Aymerich, Dörte Becher, Paola Bisicchia, Eric Botella, Olivier Delumeau, Geoff Doherty, Emma L Denham, Mark J Fogg, Vincent Fromion, Anne Goelzer, Annette Hansen, Elisabeth Härtig, Colin R Harwood, Georg Homuth, Hanne Jarmer, Matthieu Jules, Edda Klipp, Ludovic Le Chat, François Lecointe, Peter Lewis, Wolfram Liebermeister, Anika March, Ruben A T Mars, Priyanka Nannapaneni, David Noone, Susanne Pohl, Bernd Rinn, Frank Rügheimer, Praveen K Sappa, Franck Samson, Marc Schaffer, Benno Schwikowski, Leif Steil, Jörg Stülke, Thomas Wiegert, Kevin M Devine, Anthony J Wilkinson, Jan Maarten van Dijl, Michael Hecker, Uwe Völker, Philippe Bessières, Philippe Noirot
Condition-dependent transcriptome reveals high-level regulatory architecture in Bacillus subtilis.
Science: 2012, 335(6072);1103-6
[PubMed:22383849] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

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)

Boris Macek, Ivan Mijakovic, Jesper V Olsen, Florian Gnad, Chanchal Kumar, Peter R Jensen, Matthias Mann
The serine/threonine/tyrosine phosphoproteome of the model bacterium Bacillus subtilis.
Mol Cell Proteomics: 2007, 6(4);697-707
[PubMed:17218307] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)