Description : (at1g63680 : 243.0) Encodes AtMurE, a homolog of the bacterial MurE that catalyze the ATP-dependent formation of UDP-N-acetylmuramic acid-tripeptide in bacterial peptidoglycan biosynthesis. Localized to plastids. AtMurE is involved in chloroplast biogenesis.; MURE; FUNCTIONS IN: acid-amino acid ligase activity, ATP binding, ligase activity; INVOLVED IN: chloroplast fission, chloroplast organization, biosynthetic process; LOCATED IN: chloroplast, nucleoid; EXPRESSED IN: 18 plant structures; EXPRESSED DURING: 10 growth stages; CONTAINS InterPro DOMAIN/s: Mur ligase, central (InterPro:IPR013221), UDP-N-acetylmuramoylalanyl-D-glutamate-2,6-diaminopimelate ligase (InterPro:IPR005761), Mur ligase, N-terminal (InterPro:IPR000713), Mur ligase, C-terminal (InterPro:IPR004101); Has 18234 Blast hits to 18170 proteins in 2587 species: Archae - 50; Bacteria - 13487; Metazoa - 59; Fungi - 43; Plants - 60; Viruses - 2; Other Eukaryotes - 4533 (source: NCBI BLink). & (reliability: 486.0) & (original description: no original description)
Condition specificity: 3 h after light (SPM: 0.73, entropy: 1.92, tau: 0.62)