MenA

• Description: probable 1,4-dihydroxy-2-naphthoate octaprenyltransferase
  
  

Gene name	menA
Synonyms	ywaB, ipa-6d
Essential	yes PubMed
Product	probable 1,4-dihydroxy-2-naphthoate octaprenyltransferase
Function	biosynthesis of menaquinone
MW, pI	33 kDa, 9.32
Gene length, protein length	933 bp, 311 aa
Immediate neighbours	ywaC, dltA
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU38490

Phenotypes of a mutant

essential PubMed

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family: menA 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: cell membrane (according to Swiss-Prot)

Database entries

• Structure:

• Swiss prot entry: P39582

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon:

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation:

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody: