GlpQ

• Description: glycerolphosphate diester phosphodiesterase
  
  

Gene name	glpQ
Synonyms	ybeD
Essential	no
Product	glycerolphosphate diester phosphodiesterase
Function	glycerol-3-phosphate utilization
MW, pI	32 kDa, 9.263
Gene length, protein length	879 bp, 293 aa
Immediate neighbours	ybeC, glpT
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU02130

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: A glycerophosphodiester + H₂O = an alcohol + sn-glycerol 3-phosphate (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Protein family: glycerophosphoryl diester phosphodiesterase 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: extracellular (signal peptide) PubMed

Database entries

• Structure:

• Swiss prot entry: P37965

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number: 3.1.4.46

Expression and regulation

• Operon:

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation:
  • expressed under conditions of phosphate limitation (PhoP) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • PhoP: transcription activation PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

1. Voigt et al. (2009) Cell physiology and protein secretion of Bacillus licheniformis compared to Bacillus subtilis. J Mol Microbiol Biotechnol. 16: 53-68 PubMed
2. Author1, Author2 & Author3 (year) Title Journal volume: page-page. PubMed