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IPR005488

N-acetylmuramic acid 6-phosphate etherase MurQ

InterPro entry
Short nameEtherase_MurQ
Overlapping
homologous
superfamilies
 

Description

MurQ is involved in recycling components of the bacterial murein sacculus turned over during cell growth. The cell wall metabolite anhydro-N-acetylmuramic acid (anhMurNAc) is converted by a kinase, AnmK, to MurNAc-phosphate, then converted to N-acetylglucosamine-phosphate by this etherase, called MurQ
[1, 2]
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References

1.Scission of the lactyl ether bond of N-acetylmuramic acid by Escherichia coli "etherase". Jaeger T, Arsic M, Mayer C. J. Biol. Chem. 280, 30100-6, (2005). View articlePMID: 15983044

2.MurQ Etherase is required by Escherichia coli in order to metabolize anhydro-N-acetylmuramic acid obtained either from the environment or from its own cell wall. Uehara T, Suefuji K, Jaeger T, Mayer C, Park JT. J. Bacteriol. 188, 1660-2, (2006). View articlePMID: 16452451

GO terms

cellular component

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Cross References

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