GENE NAME
UDP-N-acetylmuramoylalanyl-D-glutamate--2,6-diaminopimelate ligase (EC:6.3.2.13)
ORGANISM
Mycobacterium ulcerans (strain Agy99)
GENE NAME
murE
GENE ID
4550977
TDR TARGET ID
952901
PROTEIN LENGTH
559
ASSOCIATED METABOLIC PATHWAYS
Lysine biosynthesis and Peptidoglycan biosynthesis
FUNCTION
Catalyzes the addition of meso-diaminopimelic acid to the nucleotide precursor UDP-N-acetylmuramoyl-L-alanyl-D-glutamate (UMAG) in the biosynthesis of bacterial cell-wall peptidoglycan.
UNIPROT ID
A0PTJ2
STRING
362242.MUL_3506
KEGG PATHWAY
mul:MUL_3506
GO - MOLECULAR FUNCTION
GO:0005524 GO:0000287 GO:0008765
GO - BIOLOGICAL PROCESS
GO:0007049 GO:0051301 GO:0071555 GO:0009252 GO:0008360
LINK TO PUBMED
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22912793/
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