UniProt functional annotation for P24173

UniProt code: P24173.

Organism: Escherichia coli (strain K12).
Taxonomy: Bacteria; Proteobacteria; Gammaproteobacteria; Enterobacterales; Enterobacteriaceae; Escherichia.
 
Function: Heptose transfer to the lipopolysaccharide core. It transfers the innermost heptose to [4'-P](3-deoxy-D-manno-octulosonic acid)2-IVA.
 
Pathway: Bacterial outer membrane biogenesis; LPS core biosynthesis.
Similarity: Belongs to the glycosyltransferase 9 family. {ECO:0000305}.

Annotations taken from UniProtKB at the EBI.