TABLE 3.
Homologs of identified acetamido sugar biosynthesis proteins
| Reaction no.a | Reaction | Protein
|
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| E. coli | M. maripaludis | M. jannaschii | Halobacterium sp. strain NRC-1 | P. furiosus | ||
| 1 | Glutamine-fructose-6-phosphate transaminase | GlmS | MMP1680b | MJ1420c | VNG0006G | PF0157 |
| 2 | Phosphoglucosamine mutase | GlmM | MMP1077b | MJ1100 | VNG2276G | PF0861 |
| 3 | Glucosamine-1-phosphate uridylyltransferase/ acetyltransferase | GlmU | MMP1076 | MJ1101b | VNG0009G | PF0235 |
| 4 | UDP-GlcNAc 2-epimerase | WecB | MMP0705b | MJ1504 | VNG2639G | PF0794 |
| 5 | UDP-ManNAc 6-dehydrogenase | WecC | MMP0706b | MJ0468 | VNG0046G | PF1631 |
| VNG1048G | ||||||
a
Numbers correspond to reactions shown in Fig. 2.
b
Activity confirmed in this work.
c
The MJ1420 protein contains a 499-amino-acid intein.