MurJ

• Description: lipid II flippase
  
  

Gene name	murJ
Synonyms	ytgP
Essential	no
Product	lipid II flippase
Function	export of lipid II
Gene expression levels in SubtiExpress: murJ
MW, pI	59 kDa, 10.089
Gene length, protein length	1632 bp, 544 aa
Immediate neighbours	ytzG, ytfP
Sequences	Protein DNA DNA_with_flanks
Genetic context This image was kindly provided by SubtiList
Expression at a glance   PubMed

Categories containing this gene/protein

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

The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU30050

Phenotypes of a mutant

• an amj murJ double mutant is not viable PubMed
• mutants lacking MurJ produce long cells and chains of cells PubMed

Database entries

• BsubCyc: BSU30050

• DBTBS entry: no entry

• SubtiList entry: [1]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family: MOP exporter family

• Paralogous protein(s): SpoVB, YabM, YkvU

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

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Database entries

• BsubCyc: BSU30050

• Structure:

• UniProt: O34674

• KEGG entry: [2]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon:

• Expression browser: murJ PubMed

• Sigma factor:

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Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody: