CwlQ

• Description: cell wall hydrolase
  
  

Gene name	cwlQ
Synonyms	yjbJ
Essential	no
Product	bifunctional enzyme with muramidase and soluble-lytic transglycosylase activities
Function	cell wall turnover
MW, pI	18 kDa, 7.015
Gene length, protein length	543 bp, 181 aa
Immediate neighbours	yjbI, yjbK
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU11570

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

Categories containing this gene/protein

cell wall degradation/ turnover

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: bifunctional cell wall hydrolase with muramidase and soluble-lytic transglycosylase activities PubMed

• Protein family:

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

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Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: O31608

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: cwlQ PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigD PubMed

• Regulation:

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Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

I Putu Sudiarta, Tatsuya Fukushima, Junichi Sekiguchi
Bacillus subtilis CwlQ (previous YjbJ) is a bifunctional enzyme exhibiting muramidase and soluble-lytic transglycosylase activities.
Biochem Biophys Res Commun: 2010, 398(3);606-12
[PubMed:20609359] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Masakuni Serizawa, Hiroki Yamamoto, Hirotake Yamaguchi, Yasutaro Fujita, Kazuo Kobayashi, Naotake Ogasawara, Junichi Sekiguchi
Systematic analysis of SigD-regulated genes in Bacillus subtilis by DNA microarray and Northern blotting analyses.
Gene: 2004, 329;125-36
[PubMed:15033535] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)