tuaB

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polymer export

Locus: BSU_35600

Molecular weight: 53.55 kDa

Isoelectric point: 9.98

Protein length: 483 aa

Gene length: 1452 bp

Function: biosynthesis of teichuronic acid

Product: unknown

Essential: yes

Synonyms: tuaB, yvhB

Genomic Context

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List of homologs in different organisms, belongs to COG2244 (Galperin et al., 2021)

Gene

Coordinates: 3,656,752  3,658,203

Phenotypes of a mutant

• essential PubMed
• slow growth, due to accumulation of toxic teichuronic acid precursors PubMed
• severe cell shape defect PubMed

The protein

Protein family

• Polysaccharide synthase family (according to UniProt)
• MOP exporter family

Structure

• O32273 (AlphaFold)

Localization

• cell membrane (according to UniProt)

Expression and Regulation

Operons

• Genes: tuaA/2-tuaA/1-tuaB-tuaC-tuaD-tuaE-tuaF-tuaG-tuaH

  Description: PubMed

  Regulation

  • expressed during sporulation in the forespore (SigF) PubMed

  Regulatory mechanism

  • PhoP: activation, PubMed, in phoP regulon

  Sigma factors

  • SigA: sigma factor, PubMed, in sigA regulon
  • SigF: sigma factor, PubMed, in sigF regulon

References

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