UniProt functional annotation for P14900

UniProt code: P14900.

Organism: Escherichia coli (strain K12).
Taxonomy: Bacteria; Proteobacteria; Gammaproteobacteria; Enterobacterales; Enterobacteriaceae; Escherichia.
 
Function: Cell wall formation. Catalyzes the addition of glutamate to the nucleotide precursor UDP-N-acetylmuramoyl-L-alanine (UMA).
 
Catalytic activity: Reaction=ATP + D-glutamate + UDP-N-acetyl-alpha-D-muramoyl-L-alanine = ADP + H(+) + phosphate + UDP-N-acetyl-alpha-D-muramoyl-L-alanyl-D- glutamate; Xref=Rhea:RHEA:16429, ChEBI:CHEBI:15378, ChEBI:CHEBI:29986, ChEBI:CHEBI:30616, ChEBI:CHEBI:43474, ChEBI:CHEBI:83898, ChEBI:CHEBI:83900, ChEBI:CHEBI:456216; EC=6.3.2.9;
Pathway: Cell wall biogenesis; peptidoglycan biosynthesis.
Subcellular location: Cytoplasm.
Similarity: Belongs to the MurCDEF family. {ECO:0000305}.

Annotations taken from UniProtKB at the EBI.