LipM

• Description: octanoyltransferase
  
  

Gene name	lipM
Synonyms	yqhM
Essential	no
Product	octanoyltransferase
Function	biosynthesis of lipoic acid
MW, pI	32 kDa, 5.934
Gene length, protein length	834 bp, 278 aa
Immediate neighbours	mntR, yqhL
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU24530

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: no entry

• SubtiList entry: [1]

Categories containing this gene/protein

biosynthesis of cofactors

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:
  • transfers the octanoyl moiety from octanoyl-acyl carrier protein to the lipoyl domains of the 2-oxoacid dehydrogenases via a thioester-linked octanoyl-LipM intermediate PubMed

• Protein family:

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

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• Interactions:

• Localization: cytoplasm (according to Swiss-Prot)

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: P54511

• KEGG entry: [2]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

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Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Quin H Christensen, John E Cronan
Lipoic acid synthesis: a new family of octanoyltransferases generally annotated as lipoate protein ligases.
Biochemistry: 2010, 49(46);10024-36
[PubMed:20882995] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)