GENE NAME
Tranketolase
ORGANISM
Mycobacterium ulcerans (strain Agy99)
GENE NAME
tkt
GENE ID
4551664
TDR TARGET ID
952493
PROTEIN LENGTH
700
ASSOCIATED METABOLIC PATHWAYS
Pentose phosphate pathway
FUNCTION
Catalyzes the transfer of a two-carbon ketol group from a ketose donor to an aldose acceptor, via a covalent intermediate with the cofactor thiamine pyrophosphate.
UNIPROT ID
A0PPP6
STRING
362242.MUL_1844
KEGG PATHWAY
mul:MUL_1844
GO - MOLECULAR FUNCTION
GO:0046872 GO:0004802
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