LytD

• Description: glucosaminidase
  
  

Gene name	lytD
Synonyms	cwlG
Essential	no
Product	glucosaminidase
Function	major autolysin, cell separation
MW, pI	95 kDa, 9.935
Gene length, protein length	2640 bp, 880 aa
Immediate neighbours	tagC, pmi
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU35780

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: Endohydrolysis of the N,N'-diacetylchitobiosyl unit in high-mannose glycopeptides and glycoproteins containing the -(Man(GlcNAc)₂)Asn-structure (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Protein family: glycosyl hydrolase 73 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: secreted (according to Swiss-Prot), extracellular (signal peptide) PubMed

Database entries

• Structure:

• Swiss prot entry: P39848

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number: 3.2.1.96

Expression and regulation

• Operon: lytD

• Sigma factor: SigD

• Regulation:

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Birgit Voigt, Haike Antelmann, Dirk Albrecht, Armin Ehrenreich, Karl-Heinz Maurer, Stefan Evers, Gerhard Gottschalk, Jan Maarten van Dijl, Thomas Schweder, Michael Hecker
Cell physiology and protein secretion of Bacillus licheniformis compared to Bacillus subtilis.
J Mol Microbiol Biotechnol: 2009, 16(1-2);53-68
[PubMed:18957862] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

P Margot, C Mauël, D Karamata
The gene of the N-acetylglucosaminidase, a Bacillus subtilis 168 cell wall hydrolase not involved in vegetative cell autolysis.
Mol Microbiol: 1994, 12(4);535-45
[PubMed:7934877] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)