TuaF

• Description: biosynthesis of teichuronic acid
  
  

Gene name	tuaF
Synonyms	yvhF
Essential	no
Product	unknown
Function	biosynthesis of teichuronic acid
MW, pI	24 kDa, 4.553
Gene length, protein length	678 bp, 226 aa
Immediate neighbours	tuaG, tuaE
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, sporulation proteins, membrane proteins

This gene is a member of the following regulons

PhoP regulon, SigF regulon

The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU35560

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family:

• 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:

• UniProt: O32269

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: tuaA-tuaB-tuaC-tuaD-tuaE-tuaF-tuaG-tuaH PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigA PubMed, SigF PubMed

• Regulation:
  • expressed early during sporulation in the forespore (SigF) PubMed
  • expressed under conditions of phosphate limitation (PhoP) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • PhoP: transcription activation PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody: