MurG

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  • Description: UDP-N-acetylglucosamine-N-acetylmuramyl-(pentapeptide)pyrophosphoryl-undecaprenol N-acetylglucosamine transferase

Gene name murG
Synonyms
Essential yes PubMed
Product UDP-N-acetylglucosamine-

N-acetylmuramyl-(pentapeptide)pyrophosphoryl-undecaprenol N-acetylglucosamine transferase

Function peptidoglycan precursor biosynthesis
Metabolic function and regulation of this protein in SubtiPathways:
Cell wall
MW, pI 39 kDa, 9.568
Gene length, protein length 1089 bp, 363 aa
Immediate neighbours spoVE, murB
Get the DNA and protein sequences
(Barbe et al., 2009)
Genetic context
MurG context.gif
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The gene

Basic information

  • Locus tag: BSU15220

Phenotypes of a mutant

essential PubMed

Database entries

  • DBTBS entry: [1]
  • SubtiList entry: [2]

Additional information

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

  • Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: UDP-N-acetylglucosamine + Mur2Ac(oyl-L-Ala-gamma-D-Glu-L-Lys-D-Ala-D-Ala)-diphosphoundecaprenol = UDP + GlcNAc-(1->4)-Mur2Ac(oyl-L-Ala-gamma-D-Glu-L-Lys-D-Ala-D-Ala)-diphosphoundecaprenol (according to Swiss-Prot)
  • Protein family: MurG subfamily (according to Swiss-Prot)
  • Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

  • Kinetic information:
  • Domains:
  • Modification:
  • Cofactor(s):
  • Effectors of protein activity:
  • Interactions:
  • Localization: cell membrane (according to Swiss-Prot)

Database entries

  • Structure:
  • KEGG entry: [3]

Additional information

Expression and regulation

  • Regulation:
    • expressed during vegatative growth, then switched off, and again expressed during sporulation in the mother cell (SigE) PubMed
  • Additional information:

Biological materials

  • Mutant:
  • Expression vector:
  • lacZ fusion:
  • GFP fusion:
  • two-hybrid system:
  • Antibody:

Labs working on this gene/protein

Your additional remarks

References

Ahmed Bouhss, Amy E Trunkfield, Timothy D H Bugg, Dominique Mengin-Lecreulx
The biosynthesis of peptidoglycan lipid-linked intermediates.
FEMS Microbiol Rev: 2008, 32(2);208-33
[PubMed:18081839] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Jean van Heijenoort
Lipid intermediates in the biosynthesis of bacterial peptidoglycan.
Microbiol Mol Biol Rev: 2007, 71(4);620-35
[PubMed:18063720] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Patrick Eichenberger, Masaya Fujita, Shane T Jensen, Erin M Conlon, David Z Rudner, Stephanie T Wang, Caitlin Ferguson, Koki Haga, Tsutomu Sato, Jun S Liu, Richard Losick
The program of gene transcription for a single differentiating cell type during sporulation in Bacillus subtilis.
PLoS Biol: 2004, 2(10);e328
[PubMed:15383836] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

G Theeragool, A Miyao, K Yamada, T Sato, Y Kobayashi
In vivo expression of the Bacillus subtilis spoVE gene.
J Bacteriol: 1993, 175(13);4071-80
[PubMed:8320223] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

A O Henriques, H de Lencastre, P J Piggot
A Bacillus subtilis morphogene cluster that includes spoVE is homologous to the mra region of Escherichia coli.
Biochimie: 1992, 74(7-8);735-48
[PubMed:1391053] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)