CwlQ

• Description: cell wall hydrolase
  
  

Gene name	cwlQ
Synonyms	yjbJ
Essential	no
Product	bifunctional enzyme with muramidase and soluble-lytic transglycosylase activities
Function	cell wall turnover
Gene expression levels in SubtiExpress: cwlQ
MW, pI	18 kDa, 7.015
Gene length, protein length	543 bp, 181 aa
Immediate neighbours	yjbI, yjbK
Sequences	Protein DNA Advanced_DNA
Genetic context This image was kindly provided by SubtiList
Expression at a glance   PubMed

Categories containing this gene/protein

cell wall degradation/ turnover

This gene is a member of the following regulons

SigD regulon

The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU11570

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: bifunctional cell wall hydrolase with muramidase and soluble-lytic transglycosylase activities PubMed

• Protein family:

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

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Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: O31608

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: cwlQ PubMed

• Expression browser: cwlQ PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigD PubMed

• Regulation:

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Biological materials

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• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

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References

I Putu Sudiarta, Tatsuya Fukushima, Junichi Sekiguchi
Bacillus subtilis CwlQ (previous YjbJ) is a bifunctional enzyme exhibiting muramidase and soluble-lytic transglycosylase activities.
Biochem Biophys Res Commun: 2010, 398(3);606-12
[PubMed:20609359] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Masakuni Serizawa, Hiroki Yamamoto, Hirotake Yamaguchi, Yasutaro Fujita, Kazuo Kobayashi, Naotake Ogasawara, Junichi Sekiguchi
Systematic analysis of SigD-regulated genes in Bacillus subtilis by DNA microarray and Northern blotting analyses.
Gene: 2004, 329;125-36
[PubMed:15033535] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)