TagO

• Description: teichoic acid linkage unit synthesis
  
  

Gene name	tagO
Synonyms	yvhI
Essential	yes PubMed
Product	teichoic acid linkage unit synthesis
Function	biosynthesis of teichoic acid
MW, pI	39 kDa, 10.424
Gene length, protein length	1074 bp, 358 aa
Immediate neighbours	yvhJ, tuaH
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU35530

Phenotypes of a mutant

essential PubMed

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: no entry

• SubtiList entry: [1]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: UDP-N-acetyl-D-glucosamine + undecaprenyl phosphate = UMP + N-acetyl-alpha-D-glucosaminyldiphospho-undecaprenol (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Protein family: glycosyltransferase 4 family (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:

• Localization: cell membrane (according to Swiss-Prot)

Database entries

• Structure:

• Swiss prot entry: O34753

• KEGG entry: [2]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon:

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation:

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Alex Formstone, Rut Carballido-López, Philippe Noirot, Jeffery Errington, Dirk-Jan Scheffers
Localization and interactions of teichoic acid synthetic enzymes in Bacillus subtilis.
J Bacteriol: 2008, 190(5);1812-21
[PubMed:18156271] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Blazenka Soldo, Vladimir Lazarevic, Dimitri Karamata
tagO is involved in the synthesis of all anionic cell-wall polymers in Bacillus subtilis 168.
Microbiology (Reading): 2002, 148(Pt 7);2079-2087
[PubMed:12101296] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

1. Author1, Author2 & Author3 (year) Title Journal volume: page-page. PubMed