UDP-N-acetylglucosamine—undecaprenyl-phosphate N-acetylglucosaminephosphotransferase

UDP-N-acetylglucosamine—undecaprenyl-phosphate N-acetylglucosaminephosphotransferase (EC 2.7.8.33, UDP-N-acetylglucosamine:undecaprenyl-phosphate GlcNAc-1-phosphate transferase, WecA, WecA transferase, UDP-GIcNAc:undecaprenyl phosphate N-acetylglucosaminyl 1-P transferase, GlcNAc-P-P-Und synthase, GPT, TagO, UDP-GlcNAc:undecaprenyl-phosphate GlcNAc-1-phosphate transferase, UDP-N-acetyl-D-glucosamine:ditrans,octacis-undecaprenyl phosphate N-acetylglucosaminephosphotransferase) is an enzyme with systematic name UDP-N-acetyl-alpha-D-glucosamine:ditrans,octacis-undecaprenyl phosphate N-acetyl-alpha-D-glucosaminephosphotransferase.^[1][2][3][4] This enzyme catalyses the following chemical reaction

UDP-N-acetyl-alpha-D-glucosamine + ditrans, octacis-undecaprenyl phosphate ${\displaystyle \rightleftharpoons }$ UMP + N-acetyl-alpha-D-glucosaminyldiphospho-ditrans, octacis-undecaprenol

UDP-N-acetylglucosamine—undecaprenyl-phosphate N-acetylglucosaminephosphotransferase
Identifiers
EC no.	2.7.8.33
Databases
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BRENDA	BRENDA entry
ExPASy	NiceZyme view
KEGG	KEGG entry
MetaCyc	metabolic pathway
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PDB structures	RCSB PDB PDBe PDBsum
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This enzyme catalyses the synthesis of ditrans, octacis-undecaprenyl-N-acetyl-alpha-D-glucosaminyl diphosphate.