DgkB

• Description: diacylglycerol kinase
  
  

Gene name	dgkB
Synonyms	yerQ
Essential	yes PubMed
Product	diacylglycerol kinase
Function	biosynthesis of lipoteichoic acid
MW, pI	33 kDa, 5.635
Gene length, protein length	909 bp, 303 aa
Immediate neighbours	yerP, rlmCD
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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Categories containing this gene/protein

cell wall synthesis, biosynthesis of cell wall components, essential genes

The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU06720

Expression

Phenotypes of a mutant

essential PubMed

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: no entry

• SubtiList entry: [1]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family:

• Paralogous protein(s): BmrU

Extended information on the protein

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Database entries

• Structure: 3S40 (from B. anthracis, 32% identity, 68% similarity)

• UniProt: O31502

• KEGG entry: [2]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

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Biological materials

• Mutant:

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• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

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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)