TagE

• Description: UDP-glucose:polyglycerol phosphate glucosyltransferase
  
  

Gene name	tagE
Synonyms	rodD, gtaA, gtaD
Essential	no
Product	UDP-glucose:polyglycerol phosphate glucosyltransferase
Function	biosynthesis of teichoic acid
MW, pI	78 kDa, 6.026
Gene length, protein length	2019 bp, 673 aa
Immediate neighbours	tagF, tagD
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU35730

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

Categories containing this gene/protein

cell wall synthesis, biosynthesis of cell wall components, phosphoproteins

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: UDP-glucose + poly(glycerol phosphate) = UDP + O-(alpha-D-glucosyl)poly(glycerol phosphate) (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Protein family: glycosyltransferase 1 family (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification: phosphorylation on Ser-2 PubMed

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:

• Localization: cytoplasm (according to Swiss-Prot)

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: P13484

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number: 2.4.1.52

Expression and regulation

• Operon: tagD-tagE-tagF PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigA PubMed

• Regulation:
  • repressed by phosphate (PhoP) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • PhoP: transcription repression PubMed
  • WalR: transcription activation PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody: