MnaA

• Description: UDP-N-acetylglucosamine 2-epimerase
  
  

Gene name	mnaA
Synonyms	yvyH
Essential	yes PubMed
Product	UDP-N-acetylglucosamine 2-epimerase
Function	biosynthesis of teichoic acid
MW, pI	42 kDa, 5.469
Gene length, protein length	1140 bp, 380 aa
Immediate neighbours	lytR, gtaB
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU35660

Phenotypes of a mutant

essential PubMed

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: no entry

• SubtiList entry: [1]

Categories containing this gene/protein

cell wall synthesis, biosynthesis of cell wall components, essential genes

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: UDP-N-acetyl-D-glucosamine = UDP-N-acetyl-D-mannosamine (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Protein family: UDP-N-acetylglucosamine 2-epimerase 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: cytoplasm (according to Swiss-Prot)

Database entries

• Structure: 1O6C

• UniProt: P39131

• KEGG entry: [2]

• E.C. number: 5.1.3.14

Expression and regulation

• Operon:

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation:

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody: