LytE

• Description: cell wall hydrolase (major autolysin),endopeptidase-type autolysin
  
  

Gene name	lytE
Synonyms	papQ, cwlF
Essential	no
Product	cell wall hydrolase (major autolysin),endopeptidase-type autolysin
Function	major autolysin, cell separation, cell lysis
MW, pI	37 kDa, 10.713
Gene length, protein length	1029 bp, 343 aa
Immediate neighbours	phoA, citR
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU09420

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family: nlpC/p60 family (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions: MreBH-LytE

• Localization: secreted (according to Swiss-Prot)

Database entries

• Structure:

• Swiss prot entry: P54421

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon:

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation: activated by WalR PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Rut Carballido-López, Alex Formstone, Ying Li, S Dusko Ehrlich, Philippe Noirot, Jeff Errington
Actin homolog MreBH governs cell morphogenesis by localization of the cell wall hydrolase LytE.
Dev Cell: 2006, 11(3);399-409
[PubMed:16950129] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

1. Carballido-Lopez, R., Formstone, A., Li, Y., Ehrlich, S. D., and Errington, J. (2006) Actin homolog MreBH governs cell morphogenesis by localization of the cell wall hydrolase LytE. Dev. Cell 11: 399-409.PubMed
2. Author1, Author2 & Author3 (year) Title Journal volume: page-page. PubMed