YvgJ

• Description: minor lipoteichoic acid synthase (stationary phase)
  
  

Gene name	yvgJ
Synonyms	yvsF
Essential	no
Product	minor lipoteichoic acid synthase
Function	biosynthesis of lipoteichoic acid
MW, pI	70 kDa, 5.31
Gene length, protein length	1851 bp, 617 aa
Immediate neighbours	yvsG, yvgK
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU33360

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: no entry

• SubtiList entry: [1]

Categories containing this gene/protein

cell wall synthesis, biosynthesis of cell wall components, membrane proteins

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family: LTA synthase family (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s): LtaS, YfnI, YqgS

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

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• Modification:

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• Interactions:

• Localization: cell membrane (according to Swiss-Prot)

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: O32206

• KEGG entry: [2]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon:

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• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Kathrin Schirner, Jon Marles-Wright, Richard J Lewis, Jeff Errington
Distinct and essential morphogenic functions for wall- and lipo-teichoic acids in Bacillus subtilis.
EMBO J: 2009, 28(7);830-42
[PubMed:19229300] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)