UDP-N-acetylmuramoylalanyl-D-glutamate--2,6-diaminopimelate ligase (EC:6.3.2.13)

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


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