GlmM

• Description: phosphoglucosamine mutase, required for cell wall synthesis
  
  

Gene name	glmM
Synonyms	ybbT
Essential	yes PubMed
Product	phosphoglucosamine mutase, required for cell wall synthesis
Function	cell wall synthesis
Metabolic function and regulation of this protein in SubtiPathways: Murein recycling
MW, pI	48 kDa, 4.677
Gene length, protein length	1344 bp, 448 aa
Immediate neighbours	ybbR, glmS
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, essential genes, phosphoproteins

The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU01770

Phenotypes of a mutant

essential PubMed

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: no entry

• SubtiList entry: [1]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: Alpha-D-glucosamine 1-phosphate = D-glucosamine 6-phosphate (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Protein family: phosphohexose mutase family (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification: phosphorylation on Ser-100 PubMed, this is an autophosphorylation PubMed

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:

• Localization:

Database entries

• Structure: 3PDK (from B. anthracis) PubMed

• UniProt: O34824

• KEGG entry: [2]

• E.C. number: 5.4.2.10

Expression and regulation

• Operon: ybbP-ybbR-glmM-glmS

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation:

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information:
  • A ncRNA is predicted between glmM and glmS PubMed

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:
  • pGP400: (expression in B. subtilis in pBQ200), available in Stülke lab
  • pGP1401: (expression, purification in E. coli with N-terminal His-tag, in pWH844), available in Stülke lab
  • pGP1402: (cloning vector for glmM (GlmM S100A) in E. coli, in pBlueskript KS), available in Stülke lab
  • pGP1403: (expression of GlmM (S100A) in B. subtilis in pBQ200), available in Stülke lab
  • pGP1405: (expression, purification of GlmM (S100A) in E. coli with N-terminal His-tag, in pWH844), available in Stülke lab

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody: