DgkA

• Description: undecaprenol kinase
  
  

Gene name	dgkA
Synonyms	yqxF
Essential	no
Product	undecaprenol kinase
Function	cell wall biosynthesis
MW, pI	12 kDa, 7.128
Gene length, protein length	342 bp, 114 aa
Immediate neighbours	cdd, yqfG
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU25310

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: no entry

• SubtiList entry: [1]

Categories containing this gene/protein

cell wall synthesis, biosynthesis of cell wall components

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family: bacterial diacylglycerol kinase family (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

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Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: P19638

• KEGG entry: [2]

• E.C. number: 2.7.1.107

Expression and regulation

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Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Agoston Jerga, Ying-Jie Lu, Gustavo E Schujman, Diego de Mendoza, Charles O Rock
Identification of a soluble diacylglycerol kinase required for lipoteichoic acid production in Bacillus subtilis.
J Biol Chem: 2007, 282(30);21738-45
[PubMed:17535816] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Samuel Amiteye, Kazuo Kobayashi, Daisuke Imamura, Shigeo Hosoya, Naotake Ogasawara, Tsutomu Sato
Bacillus subtilis diacylglycerol kinase (DgkA) enhances efficient sporulation.
J Bacteriol: 2003, 185(17);5306-9
[PubMed:12923107] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)