This family contains a number of related ligase enzymes which have EC numbers 6.3.2.*. This family includes: MurC (Swiss:P17952), MurD (Swiss:P14900), MurE (Swiss:P22188), MurF (Swiss:P11880), Mpl (Swiss:P37773) and FolC (Swiss:P08192). MurC, MurD, ...
This family contains a number of related ligase enzymes which have EC numbers 6.3.2.*. This family includes: MurC (Swiss:P17952), MurD (Swiss:P14900), MurE (Swiss:P22188), MurF (Swiss:P11880), Mpl (Swiss:P37773) and FolC (Swiss:P08192). MurC, MurD, Mure and MurF catalyse consecutive steps in the synthesis of peptidoglycan. Peptidoglycan consists of a sheet of two sugar derivatives, with one of these N-acetylmuramic acid attaching to a small pentapeptide. The pentapeptide is is made of L-alanine, D-glutamic acid, Meso-diaminopimelic acid and D-alanyl alanine. The peptide moiety is synthesised by successively adding these amino acids to UDP-N-acetylmuramic acid. MurC transfers the L-alanine, MurD transfers the D-glutamate, MurE transfers the diaminopimelic acid, and MurF transfers the D-alanyl alanine. This family also includes Folylpolyglutamate synthase that transfers glutamate to folylpolyglutamate.
This entry contains a number of related ligase enzymes which have EC numbers 6.3.2.* which includes: MurC (Swiss:P17952), MurD (Swiss:P14900), MurE (Swiss:P22188), MurF (Swiss:P11880), Mpl (Swiss:P37773) and FolC (Swiss:P08192). MurC, MurD, MurE and ...
This entry contains a number of related ligase enzymes which have EC numbers 6.3.2.* which includes: MurC (Swiss:P17952), MurD (Swiss:P14900), MurE (Swiss:P22188), MurF (Swiss:P11880), Mpl (Swiss:P37773) and FolC (Swiss:P08192). MurC, MurD, MurE and MurF catalyse consecutive steps in the synthesis of peptidoglycan. Peptidoglycan consists of a sheet of two sugar derivatives, with one of these N-acetylmuramic acid attaching to a small pentapeptide. The pentapeptide is is made of L-alanine, D-glutamic acid, Meso-diaminopimelic acid and D-alanyl alanine. The peptide moiety is synthesised by successively adding these amino acids to UDP-N-acetylmuramic acid. MurC transfers the L-alanine, MurD transfers the D-glutamate, MurE transfers the diaminopimelic acid, and MurF transfers the D-alanyl alanine [1,3,4]. This entry also includes folylpolyglutamate synthase that transfers glutamate to folylpolyglutamate and cyanophycin synthetase that catalyses the biosynthesis of the cyanobacterial reserve material multi-L-arginyl-poly-L-aspartate (cyanophycin) [2].
UDP-N-acetylmuramate-alanine ligase (MurC) is an essential, cytoplasmic peptidoglycan biosynthetic enzyme that catalyses the ATP-dependent ligation of L-alanine (Ala) and UDP-N-acetylmuramic acid (UNAM) to form UDP-N-acetylmuramyl-L-alanine (UNAM-Ala). This reaction is part of the biosynthesis of cell walls in bacteria. MurC is a nonribosomal peptide ligase which utilises ATP to form an amide bond between L-alanine and UNAM. Mechanistic studies on the Escherichia coli enzyme demonstrated that the enzyme-catalysed reaction proceeds through an acyl phosphate UNAM intermediate prior to L-alanine addition.
Defined by 3 residues: LYS:A-129THR:A-130GLU:A-173