LtaS

• Description: lipoteichoic acid synthase
  
  

Gene name	ltaS
Synonyms	yflE
Essential	no
Product	major lipoteichoic acid synthase
Function	biosynthesis of lipoteichoic acid
Metabolic function and regulation of this protein in SubtiPathways: Lipid synthesis
MW, pI	74 kDa, 5.202
Gene length, protein length	1947 bp, 649 aa
Immediate neighbours	nagP, yflD
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag:

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

Categories containing this gene/protein

cell wall synthesis, biosynthesis of cell wall components, membrane proteins, phosphoproteins

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family: LTA synthase family (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s): YfnI, YqgS, YvgJ

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification: phosphorylated on Thr-297 PubMed

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:

• Localization: cell membrane (according to Swiss-Prot), extracellular (signal peptide) PubMed

Database entries

• Structure: 2W8D

• UniProt: O34952

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: ltaS (according to DBTBS)

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation:

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Kathrin Schirner, Jon Marles-Wright, Richard J Lewis, Jeff Errington
Distinct and essential morphogenic functions for wall- and lipo-teichoic acids in Bacillus subtilis.
EMBO J: 2009, 28(7);830-42
[PubMed:19229300] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Duo Lu, Mirka E Wörmann, Xiaodong Zhang, Olaf Schneewind, Angelika Gründling, Paul S Freemont
Structure-based mechanism of lipoteichoic acid synthesis by Staphylococcus aureus LtaS.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A: 2009, 106(5);1584-9
[PubMed:19168632] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Angelika Gründling, Olaf Schneewind
Synthesis of glycerol phosphate lipoteichoic acid in Staphylococcus aureus.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A: 2007, 104(20);8478-83
[PubMed:17483484] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)