TagD

• Description: glycerol-3-phosphate cytidylyltransferase
  
  

Gene name	tagD
Synonyms
Essential	yes PubMed
Product	glycerol-3-phosphate cytidylyltransferase
Function	biosynthesis of teichoic acid
MW, pI	15 kDa, 5.672
Gene length, protein length	387 bp, 129 aa
Immediate neighbours	tagE, tagA
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU35740

Phenotypes of a mutant

essential PubMed

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: CTP + sn-glycerol 3-phosphate = diphosphate + CDP-glycerol (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Protein family: cytidylyltransferase family (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions: TagD-TagD PubMed

• Localization: cytoplasm (according to Swiss-Prot)

Database entries

• Structure: 1N1D (complex with CDP-glycerol) PubMed, 1COZ

• UniProt: P27623

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number: 2.7.7.39

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:

References

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