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EC 4.2.1.126 - N-acetylmuramic acid 6-phosphate etherase

IntEnz Enzyme Nomenclature
EC 4.2.1.126

Names

Reaction

• (R)-lactate + N-acetyl-D-glucosamine 6-phosphate = N-acetylmuramate 6-phosphate + H2O

Comments:

This enzyme, along with EC 2.7.1.170, anhydro-N-acetylmuramic acid kinase, is required for the utilization of anhydro-N-acetylmuramic acid in proteobacteria. The substrate is either imported from the medium or derived from the bacterium's own cell wall murein during cell wall recycling.

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References

1. Uehara, T., Suefuji, K., Valbuena, N., Meehan, B., Donegan, M., Park, J. T.
   Recycling of the anhydro-N-acetylmuramic acid derived from cell wall murein involves a two-step conversion to N-acetylglucosamine-phosphate.
   J. Bacteriol. 187 : 3643-3649 (2005). [PMID: 15901686]
2. Uehara, T., Suefuji, K., Jaeger, T., Mayer, C., Park, J. T.
   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.
   J. Bacteriol. 188 : 1660-1662 (2006). [PMID: 16452451]
3. Jaeger, T., Arsic, M., Mayer, C.
   Scission of the lactyl ether bond of N-acetylmuramic acid by Escherichia coli "etherase".
   J. Biol. Chem. 280 : 30100-30106 (2005). [PMID: 15983044]
4. Hadi, T., Dahl, U., Mayer, C., Tanner, M. E.
   Mechanistic studies on N-acetylmuramic acid 6-phosphate hydrolase (MurQ): an etherase involved in peptidoglycan recycling.
   Biochemistry 47 : 11547-11558 (2008). [PMID: 18837509]
5. Jaeger, T., Mayer, C.
   N-acetylmuramic acid 6-phosphate lyases (MurNAc etherases): role in cell wall metabolism, distribution, structure, and mechanism.
   Cell. Mol. Life Sci. 65 : 928-939 (2008). [PMID: 18049859]

[EC 4.2.1.126 created 2011]