DltD

• Description: D-alanine transfer from undecaprenol-phosphate to the poly(glycerophosphate) chain
  
  

Gene name	dltD
Synonyms	ipa-2r
Essential	no
Product	D-alanine transfer from undecaprenol-phosphate to the poly(glycerophosphate) chain
Function	biosynthesis of teichoic acid
MW, pI	44 kDa, 9.858
Gene length, protein length	1176 bp, 392 aa
Immediate neighbours	dltC, dltE
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU38530

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

Categories containing this gene/protein

cell wall synthesis, biosynthesis of cell wall components, cell envelope stress proteins (controlled by SigM, W, X, Y)

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:

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: P39578

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: dltA-dltB-dltC-dltD-dltE PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigD PubMed, SigX PubMed

• Regulation:
  • RelA dependent downregulation (Class I) during stringent response PubMed
  • repressed under conditions that trigger sporulation (Spo0A) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • activated by YvrHb PubMed
  • Spo0A: transcription repression PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Hanne-Leena Hyyryläinen, Milla Pietiäinen, Tuula Lundén, Anna Ekman, Marika Gardemeister, Sanna Murtomäki-Repo, Haike Antelmann, Michael Hecker, Leena Valmu, Matti Sarvas, Vesa P Kontinen
The density of negative charge in the cell wall influences two-component signal transduction in Bacillus subtilis.
Microbiology (Reading): 2007, 153(Pt 7);2126-2136
[PubMed:17600057] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Min Cao, John D Helmann
The Bacillus subtilis extracytoplasmic-function sigmaX factor regulates modification of the cell envelope and resistance to cationic antimicrobial peptides.
J Bacteriol: 2004, 186(4);1136-46
[PubMed:14762009] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Hans-Matti Blencke, Georg Homuth, Holger Ludwig, Ulrike Mäder, Michael Hecker, Jörg Stülke
Transcriptional profiling of gene expression in response to glucose in Bacillus subtilis: regulation of the central metabolic pathways.
Metab Eng: 2003, 5(2);133-49
[PubMed:12850135] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

H L Hyyrylainen, M Vitikainen, J Thwaite, H Wu, M Sarvas, C R Harwood, V P Kontinen, K Stephenson
D-Alanine substitution of teichoic acids as a modulator of protein folding and stability at the cytoplasmic membrane/cell wall interface of Bacillus subtilis.
J Biol Chem: 2000, 275(35);26696-703
[PubMed:10871614] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

M Perego, P Glaser, A Minutello, M A Strauch, K Leopold, W Fischer
Incorporation of D-alanine into lipoteichoic acid and wall teichoic acid in Bacillus subtilis. Identification of genes and regulation.
J Biol Chem: 1995, 270(26);15598-606
[PubMed:7797557] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)