LytC

• Description: N-acetylmuramoyl-L-alanine amidase, required for flagellar function PubMed
  
  

Gene name	lytC
Synonyms	cwlB
Essential	no
Product	N-acetylmuramoyl-L-alanine amidase
Function	major autolysin, cell separation, wall turnover lysis, motility and general cell lysis induced by sodium azide
Gene expression levels in SubtiExpress: lytC lysis, motility and general cell lysis induced by sodium azide
Metabolic function and regulation of this protein in SubtiPathways: LytC
MW, pI	52 kDa, 10.108
Gene length, protein length	1488 bp, 496 aa
Immediate neighbours	tuaA, lytB
Sequences	Protein DNA DNA_with_flanks
Genetic context This image was kindly provided by SubtiList
Expression at a glance   PubMed

Categories containing this gene/protein

cell wall degradation/ turnover, motility and chemotaxis

This gene is a member of the following regulons

SigD regulon, SlrR regulon, YvrHb regulon

The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU35620

Phenotypes of a mutant

• impaired in motility, the phenotype is suppressed by mutations in lonA or smiA PubMed

Database entries

• BsubCyc: BSU35620

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: Hydrolyzes the link between N-acetylmuramoyl residues and L-amino acid residues in certain cell-wall glycopeptides (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Protein family: N-acetylmuramoyl-L-alanine amidase 3 family (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains: contains an amidase_3 domain (like CwlC, CwlD, YqiI, YrvJ)

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:

• Localization:
  • secreted (according to Swiss-Prot)

Database entries

• BsubCyc: BSU35620

• Structure:

• UniProt: Q02114

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number: 3.5.1.28

Expression and regulation

• Operon: lytA-lytB-lytC PubMed

• Expression browser: lytC PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigA PubMed, SigD PubMed

• Regulation:

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • YvrHb: transcription repression PubMed
  • SlrR (in complex with SinR: transcription repression PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:
  • 1A789 ( lytC::kan), PubMed, available at BGSC

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Yunrong Chai, Thomas Norman, Roberto Kolter, Richard Losick
An epigenetic switch governing daughter cell separation in Bacillus subtilis.
Genes Dev: 2010, 24(8);754-65
[PubMed:20351052] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Rui Chen, Sarah B Guttenplan, Kris M Blair, Daniel B Kearns
Role of the sigmaD-dependent autolysins in Bacillus subtilis population heterogeneity.
J Bacteriol: 2009, 191(18);5775-84
[PubMed:19542270] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Masakuni Serizawa, Keisuke Kodama, Hiroki Yamamoto, Kazuo Kobayashi, Naotake Ogasawara, Junichi Sekiguchi
Functional analysis of the YvrGHb two-component system of Bacillus subtilis: identification of the regulated genes by DNA microarray and northern blot analyses.
Biosci Biotechnol Biochem: 2005, 69(11);2155-69
[PubMed:16306698] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Hiroki Yamamoto, Shin-ichirou Kurosawa, Junichi Sekiguchi
Localization of the vegetative cell wall hydrolases LytC, LytE, and LytF on the Bacillus subtilis cell surface and stability of these enzymes to cell wall-bound or extracellular proteases.
J Bacteriol: 2003, 185(22);6666-77
[PubMed:14594841] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

T Shida, H Hattori, F Ise, J Sekiguchi
Overexpression, purification, and characterization of Bacillus subtilis N-acetylmuramoyl-L-alanine amidase CwlC.
Biosci Biotechnol Biochem: 2000, 64(7);1522-5
[PubMed:10945275] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

P Margot, V Lazarevic, D Karamata
Effect of the SinR protein on the expression of the Bacillus subtilis 168 lytABC operon.
Microb Drug Resist: 1996, 2(1);119-21
[PubMed:9158733] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

V Lazarevic, P Margot, B Soldo, D Karamata
Sequencing and analysis of the Bacillus subtilis lytRABC divergon: a regulatory unit encompassing the structural genes of the N-acetylmuramoyl-L-alanine amidase and its modifier.
J Gen Microbiol: 1992, 138(9);1949-61
[PubMed:1357079] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)