MurQ

• Description: similar to E. coli MurQ (etherase, cleaves lactate from N-acetylmuramic acid)
  
  

Gene name	murQ
Synonyms	ybbI
Essential	no
Product	putative etherase
Function	cell wall turnover
Gene expression levels in SubtiExpress: murQ
Metabolic function and regulation of this protein in SubtiPathways: Murein recycling
MW, pI	32 kDa, 5.404
Gene length, protein length	912 bp, 304 aa
Immediate neighbours	murR, ybbJ
Sequences	Protein DNA DNA_with_flanks
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Expression at a glance   PubMed

Categories containing this gene/protein

cell wall degradation/ turnover, utilization of specific carbon sources, phosphoproteins

The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU01700

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: no entry

• SubtiList entry: [1]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: N-acetylmuramic acid 6-phosphate + H₂O = N-acetyl-D-glucosamine 6-phosphate + D-lactate (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Protein family: SIS domain (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification: phosphorylation on Ser-2 PubMed

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:

• Localization:

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: Q45582

• KEGG entry: [2]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: murQ-murR-murP-amiE-nagZ-ybbC PubMed

• Expression browser: murQ PubMed

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation:

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody: