Protein Family Models

Members of this protein family include BshC, which is an enzyme required for bacillithiol biosynthesis and described as a cysteine-adding enzyme [1]. [1]. 20308541. Biosynthesis and functions of bacillithiol, a major low-molecular-weight thiol in Bacilli. Gaballa A, Newton GL, Antelmann H, Parsonage D, Upton H, Rawat M, Claiborne A, Fahey RC, Helmann JD;. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2010;107:6482-6486. (from Pfam)

Gene:

bshC

Date:

2024-12-30

bacillithiol (BSH) biosynthesis cysteine-adding enzyme BshC may catalyze the last step of the BSH biosynthesis pathway, the addition of cysteine to glucosamine malate (GlcN-Mal) to generate BSH

Date:

2020-07-29

Members of this protein family are BshC, an enzyme required for bacillithiol biosynthesis and described as a cysteine-adding enzyme. Bacillithiol is a low-molecular-weight thiol, an analog of glutathione and mycothiol, and is found largely in the Firmicutes.

Gene:

bshC

Date:

2021-04-27