GENE NAME
Diaminopimelate epimerase
ORGANISM
Mycobacterium ulcerans (strain Agy99)
GENE NAME
dapF
GENE ID
4553492
TDR TARGET ID
951992
PROTEIN LENGTH
290
ASSOCIATED METABOLIC PATHWAYS
Lysine biosynthesis
FUNCTION
Catalyzes the stereoinversion of LL-2,6-diaminoheptanedioate (L,L-DAP) to meso-diaminoheptanedioate (meso-DAP), a precursor of L-lysine and an essential component of the bacterial peptidoglycan.
UNIPROT ID
A0PT80
STRING
362242.MUL_3369
KEGG PATHWAY
mul:MUL_3369
GO - MOLECULAR FUNCTION
GO:0008837
GO - BIOLOGICAL PROCESS
GO:0009089
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