Polyphosphate glucokinase

GENE NAME

Polyphosphate glucokinase

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ORGANISM

Mycobacterium ulcerans (strain Agy99)

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GENE NAME

ppgk

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GENE ID

4553175

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TDR TARGET ID

953626

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PROTEIN LENGTH

264

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ASSOCIATED METABOLIC PATHWAYS

Glycolysis/Gluconeogenesis and  Amino sugar and nucleotide sugar metabolism

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FUNCTION

Catalyzes the phosphorylation of glucose using polyphosphate or ATP as the phosphoryl donor (PubMed: 8617763). Polyphosphate, rather than ATP, seems to be the major phosphate donor for the enzyme.

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UNIPROT ID

A0PT57

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STRING

362242.MUL_3340

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KEGG PATHWAY

mul:MUL_3340

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GO - MOLECULAR FUNCTION

GO:0016301

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LINK TO PUBMED

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22912793/

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REFERENCE

Butt, A. M., Nasrullah, I., Tahir, S., & Tong, Y. (2012). Comparative Genomics Analysis of Mycobacterium ulcerans for the Identification of Putative Essential Genesand Therapeutic Candidates.pdf (p. 16). https://doi.org/10.1371/annotation/8ce51727-91b0-463f-9b4c-768aab0a230a

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