| UniProt functional annotation for P62577 | |||
| UniProt code: P62577. |
| Organism: | Escherichia coli. | |
| Taxonomy: | Bacteria; Proteobacteria; Gammaproteobacteria; Enterobacterales; Enterobacteriaceae; Escherichia. | |
| Function: | This enzyme is an effector of chloramphenicol resistance in bacteria. | |
| Catalytic activity: | Reaction=acetyl-CoA + chloramphenicol = chloramphenicol 3-acetate + CoA; Xref=Rhea:RHEA:18421, ChEBI:CHEBI:16730, ChEBI:CHEBI:17698, ChEBI:CHEBI:57287, ChEBI:CHEBI:57288; EC=2.3.1.28; Evidence={ECO:0000255|PROSITE-ProRule:PRU10021}; | |
| Subunit: | Homotrimer. {ECO:0000269|PubMed:9334294}. | |
| Biotechnology: | This protein is used as a marker in many commonly used cloning vectors, such as pACYC184. | |
| Miscellaneous: | Transposon Tncam204 is derived from the R plasmid NR1. {ECO:0000305|PubMed:7353655}. | |
| Similarity: | Belongs to the chloramphenicol acetyltransferase family. {ECO:0000305}. | |
Annotations taken from UniProtKB at the EBI.