GalE

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  • Description: UDP glucose 4-epimerase

Gene name galE
Synonyms
Essential no
Product UDP glucose 4-epimerase
Function galactose utilization
MW, pI 36 kDa, 4.776
Gene length, protein length 1017 bp, 339 aa
Immediate neighbours yxkC, yxkA
Get the DNA and protein sequences
(Barbe et al., 2009)
Genetic context
GalE context.gif
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The gene

Basic information

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Phenotypes of a mutant

Database entries

  • DBTBS entry: [1]
  • SubtiList entry: [2]

Additional information

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

  • Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: UDP-glucose = UDP-galactose (according to Swiss-Prot)
  • Protein family: sugar epimerase family (according to Swiss-Prot)
  • Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

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Database entries

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Additional information

Expression and regulation

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Biological materials

  • Mutant:
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  • lacZ fusion:
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Labs working on this gene/protein

Your additional remarks

References

  1. Krispin O, Allmansberger R. (1998) The Bacillus subtilis galE gene is essential in the presence of glucose and galactose. J Bacteriol. Apr;180(8): 2265-70. PubMed