GalT

• Description: galactose-1-phosphate uridylyltransferase
  
  

Gene name	galT
Synonyms	ipa-36d
Essential	no
Product	galactose-1-phosphate uridylyltransferase
Function	galactose utilization
Metabolic function and regulation of this protein in SubtiPathways: Sugar catabolism
MW, pI	58 kDa, 5.623
Gene length, protein length	1539 bp, 513 aa
Immediate neighbours	ywzA, galK
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU38190

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: UDP-glucose + alpha-D-galactose 1-phosphate = alpha-D-glucose 1-phosphate + UDP-galactose (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Protein family: galactose-1-phosphate uridylyltransferase type 2 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: cytoplasm (according to Swiss-Prot)

Database entries

• Structure:

• Swiss prot entry: P39575

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number: 2.7.7.12

Expression and regulation

• Operon: galK-galT

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation: repressed by glucose (CcpA)

• Regulatory mechanism: CcpA: transcription repression

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody: