Ggt

• Description: gamma-glutamyltransferase
  
  

Gene name	ggt
Synonyms	pac
Essential	no
Product	gamma-glutamyltransferase
Function	degradation of poly-glutamate capsules
MW, pI	64 kDa, 5.453
Gene length, protein length	1761 bp, 587 aa
Immediate neighbours	yoeD, yofA
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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Categories containing this gene/protein

capsule biosynthesis and degradation

The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU18410

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: no entry

• SubtiList entry: [1]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: (5-L-glutamyl)-peptide + an amino acid = peptide + 5-L-glutamyl amino acid (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Protein family:

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

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• Modification:

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• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:

• Localization: extracellular (signal peptide) PubMed

Database entries

• Structure: 2V36

• UniProt: P54422

• KEGG entry: [2]

• E.C. number: 2.3.2.2

Expression and regulation

• Operon:

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation:

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Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Kei Wada, Machiko Irie, Hideyuki Suzuki, Keiichi Fukuyama
Crystal structure of the halotolerant gamma-glutamyltranspeptidase from Bacillus subtilis in complex with glutamate reveals a unique architecture of the solvent-exposed catalytic pocket.
FEBS J: 2010, 277(4);1000-9
[PubMed:20088880] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Birgit Voigt, Haike Antelmann, Dirk Albrecht, Armin Ehrenreich, Karl-Heinz Maurer, Stefan Evers, Gerhard Gottschalk, Jan Maarten van Dijl, Thomas Schweder, Michael Hecker
Cell physiology and protein secretion of Bacillus licheniformis compared to Bacillus subtilis.
J Mol Microbiol Biotechnol: 2009, 16(1-2);53-68
[PubMed:18957862] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Keitarou Kimura, Lam-Son Phan Tran, Ikuo Uchida, Yoshifumi Itoh
Characterization of Bacillus subtilis gamma-glutamyltransferase and its involvement in the degradation of capsule poly-gamma-glutamate.
Microbiology (Reading): 2004, 150(Pt 12);4115-23
[PubMed:15583164] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Hiromichi Minami, Hideyuki Suzuki, Hidehiko Kumagai
A mutant Bacillus subtilis gamma-glutamyltranspeptidase specialized in hydrolysis activity.
FEMS Microbiol Lett: 2003, 224(2);169-73
[PubMed:12892879] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)