TagV

• Description: phosphotransferase, attaches teichoic acid, teichuronic acid, or acidic capsular polysaccharide to cell wall peptidoglycan via phosphodiester linkage to N-acteylmuramic acid
  
  

Gene name	yvhJ
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	phosphotransferase, responsible for attachment of anionic polymers to peptidoglycan
Function	transfer of anionic cell wall polymers from lipid-linked precursors to peptidoglycan
MW, pI	43 kDa, 9.139
Gene length, protein length	1173 bp, 391 aa
Immediate neighbours	yvyE, tagO
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
Genetic context This image was kindly provided by SubtiList

Categories containing this gene/protein

transcription factors and their control

This gene is a member of the following regulons

Spo0A regulon

The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU35520

Phenotypes of a mutant

• a tagV mutant has no phenoype, the triple tagT tagU tagV mutant is unable to grow under normal conditions PubMed

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family: LytR-Cps2a-Psr family PubMed

• Paralogous protein(s): TagT, TagU

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s): Mg(2+) PubMed

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:

• Localization:
  • cytoplasmic membrane (with extracytoplasmic catalaytic domain) PubMed

Database entries

• Structure: 3NXH

• UniProt: P96499

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: yvyE-yvhJ (according to DBTBS)

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation:
  • repressed under conditions that trigger sporulation (Spo0A) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • Spo0A: transcription repression PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Yoshikazu Kawai, Jon Marles-Wright, Robert M Cleverley, Robyn Emmins, Shu Ishikawa, Masayoshi Kuwano, Nadja Heinz, Nhat Khai Bui, Christopher N Hoyland, Naotake Ogasawara, Richard J Lewis, Waldemar Vollmer, Richard A Daniel, Jeff Errington
A widespread family of bacterial cell wall assembly proteins.
EMBO J: 2011, 30(24);4931-41
[PubMed:21964069] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I e)

Judith Hübscher, Lucas Lüthy, Brigitte Berger-Bächi, Patricia Stutzmann Meier
Phylogenetic distribution and membrane topology of the LytR-CpsA-Psr protein family.
BMC Genomics: 2008, 9;617
[PubMed:19099556] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I e)

Virginie Molle, Masaya Fujita, Shane T Jensen, Patrick Eichenberger, José E González-Pastor, Jun S Liu, Richard Losick
The Spo0A regulon of Bacillus subtilis.
Mol Microbiol: 2003, 50(5);1683-701
[PubMed:14651647] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)