UDP-glucose 4-epimerase

GENE NAME

UDP-glucose 4-epimerase

ORGANISM

Mycobacterium ulcerans (strain Agy99)

GENE NAME

galE3

GENE ID

4551632

TDR TARGET ID

9516655

PROTEIN LENGTH

346

ASSOCIATED METABOLIC PATHWAYS

Galactose metabolism,  Amino sugar and nucleotide sugar metabolism

FUNCTION

catalyzes the reversible conversion between UDP-galactose (UDP-Gal) and UDP-glucose (UDP-Glc) in the third step of the Leloir pathway in galactose metabolism.

UNIPROT ID

A0PLT1

STRING

362242.MUL_0635

KEGG PATHWAY

mul:MUL_0635

GO - MOLECULAR FUNCTION

GO:0003824

LINK TO PUBMED


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