GgaA

• Description: galactosamine-containing minor teichoic acid biosynthesis
  
  

Gene name	ggaA
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	unknown
Function	biosynthesis of teichoic acid
MW, pI	52 kDa, 9.055
Gene length, protein length	1338 bp, 446 aa
Immediate neighbours	ggaB, tagH
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU35690

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family: glycosyltransferase 2 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:

Database entries

• Structure:

• Swiss prot entry: P46917

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: ggaA-ggaB 16735734 PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigA 16735734 PubMed

• Regulation:

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Pierre-Philippe Freymond, Vladimir Lazarevic, Blazenka Soldo, Dimitri Karamata
Poly(glucosyl-N-acetylgalactosamine 1-phosphate), a wall teichoic acid of Bacillus subtilis 168: its biosynthetic pathway and mode of attachment to peptidoglycan.
Microbiology (Reading): 2006, 152(Pt 6);1709-1718
[PubMed:16735734] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)