GENE NAME
Diaminopimelate decarboxylase
ORGANISM
Mycobacterium ulcerans (strain Agy99)
GENE NAME
lysA
GENE ID
4551395
TDR TARGET ID
953906
PROTEIN LENGTH
472
ASSOCIATED METABOLIC PATHWAYS
Lysine biosynthesis
FUNCTION
Specifically catalyzes the decarboxylation of meso-diaminopimelate (meso-DAP) to L-lysine.
UNIPROT ID
A0PUL7
STRING
362242.MUL_3971
KEGG PATHWAY
mul:MUL_3971
GO - MOLECULAR FUNCTION
GO:0008836 GO:0030170
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