YlmE

• Description: amino acid racemase, production of D-amino acids, control of biofilm formation
  
  

Gene name	ylmE
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	amino acid racemase
Function	control of biofilm formation
MW, pI	25 kDa, 5.546
Gene length, protein length	690 bp, 230 aa
Immediate neighbours	ylmD, sepF
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU15380

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

Categories containing this gene/protein

biofilm formation

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family: UPF0001 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:

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: O31727

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: ylmD-ylmE-sepF-ylmG-ylmH PubMed

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation:
  • repressed under conditions that trigger sporulation (Spo0A) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • Spo0A: transcription repression PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody: