KamA

• Description: lysine 2,3-aminomutase
  
  

Gene name	kamA
Synonyms	yodO
Essential	no
Product	lysine 2,3-aminomutase
Function	unknown
MW, pI	53 kDa, 6.04
Gene length, protein length	1413 bp, 471 aa
Immediate neighbours	yozE, yodP
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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Categories containing this gene/protein

poorly characterized/ putative enzymes

The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU19690

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: no entry

• SubtiList entry: [1]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: L-lysine = beta-lysine

• Protein family: UPF0720 family (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

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Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: O34676

• KEGG entry: [2]

• E.C. number: 5.4.3.2

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

Stefan Müller, Tamara Hoffmann, Helena Santos, Stephan H Saum, Erhard Bremer, Volker Müller
Bacterial abl-like genes: production of the archaeal osmolyte N(ε)-acetyl-β-lysine by homologous overexpression of the yodP-kamA genes in Bacillus subtilis.
Appl Microbiol Biotechnol: 2011, 91(3);689-97
[PubMed:21538109] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

D Chen, F J Ruzicka, P A Frey
A novel lysine 2,3-aminomutase encoded by the yodO gene of bacillus subtilis: characterization and the observation of organic radical intermediates.
Biochem J: 2000, 348 Pt 3(Pt 3);539-49
[PubMed:10839984] [WorldCat.org] (P p)