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UDP-N-acetylglucosamine—undecaprenyl-phosphate N-acetylglucosaminephosphotransferase

Class of enzymes

Summary

Class of enzymes

Field	Value
Name	UDP-N-acetylglucosamine—undecaprenyl-phosphate N-acetylglucosaminephosphotransferase
EC_number	2.7.8.33

**** (, **, WecA, WecA transferase, **, **, GPT, TagO, **, **) is an enzyme with systematic name **. This enzyme catalyses the following chemical reaction

: \rightleftharpoons UMP +

This enzyme catalyses the synthesis of .

References

(November 2008). "Purification and characterization of the bacterial UDP-GlcNAc:undecaprenyl-phosphate GlcNAc-1-phosphate transferase WecA". Journal of Bacteriology.
(April 2007). "Functional characterization and membrane topology of Escherichia coli WecA, a sugar-phosphate transferase initiating the biosynthesis of enterobacterial common antigen and O-antigen lipopolysaccharide". Journal of Bacteriology.
(March 1997). "Polyisoprenyl phosphate specificity of UDP-GlcNAc:undecaprenyl phosphate N-acetylglucosaminyl 1-P transferase from E.coli". Glycobiology.
(July 2002). "tagO is involved in the synthesis of all anionic cell-wall polymers in Bacillus subtilis 168". Microbiology.

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