NagA

• Description: N-acetylglucosamine-6-phosphate deacetylase
  
  

Gene name	nagA
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	N-acetylglucosamine-6-phosphate deacetylase
Function	N-acetylglucosamine utilization
Metabolic function and regulation of this protein in SubtiPathways: Sugar catabolism
MW, pI	42 kDa, 5.276
Gene length, protein length	1188 bp, 396 aa
Immediate neighbours	hprK, nagB
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU35010

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: no entry

• SubtiList entry: [1]

Categories containing this gene/protein

cell wall degradation/ turnover, utilization of specific carbon sources

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: N-acetyl-D-glucosamine 6-phosphate + H₂O = D-glucosamine 6-phosphate + acetate (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Protein family: nagA family (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information: K(M): 1.4 mM PubMed

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:

• Localization:

Database entries

• Structure: 2VHL PubMed

• UniProt: O34450

• KEGG entry: [2]

• E.C. number: 3.5.1.25

Expression and regulation

• Operon:

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation:
  • induced by N-acetylglucosamine PubMed
  • repressed by glucose (2.9-fold) (CcpA) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism: CcpA: transcription repression PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody: