GENE NAME
UTP--glucose-1-phosphate uridylyltransferase
ORGANISM
Mycobacterium ulcerans (strain Agy99)
GENE NAME
galU
GENE ID
4554380
TDR TARGET ID
951862
PROTEIN LENGTH
305
ASSOCIATED METABOLIC PATHWAYS
Pentose and glucuronate interconversions, Galactose metabolism, Starch and sucrose metabolism, Amino sugar and nucleotide sugar metabolism
FUNCTION
Catalyzes the conversion of glucose-1-phosphate into UDP-glucose, a crucial precursor for the production of glycogen.
UNIPROT ID
A0PWA6
STRING
362242.MUL_4693
KEGG PATHWAY
mul:MUL_4693
GO - MOLECULAR FUNCTION
GO:0003983
GO - BIOLOGICAL PROCESS
GO:0009058 GO:0006011
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