>TIGR03371 cellulose_yhjQ cellulose synthase operon protein YhjQ. Members of this family are the YhjQ protein, found immediately upsteam of bacterial cellulose synthase (bcs) genes in a broad range of bacteria, including both copies of the bcs locus in Klebsiella pneumoniae. In several species it is seen clearly as part of the bcs operon. It is identified as a probable component of the bacterial cellulose metabolic process not only by gene location, but also by partial phylogenetic profiling, or Haft-Selengut algorithm (PMID:16930487), based on a bacterial cellulose biosynthesis genome property profile. Cellulose plays an important role in biofilm formation and structural integrity in some bacteria. Mutants in yhjQ in Escherichia coli, show altered morphology an growth, but the function of YhjQ has not yet been determined.

Probab=95.46  E-value=0.022  Score=36.83  Aligned_cols=45  Identities=13%  Similarity=-0.018  Sum_probs=20.7

Q ss_pred             CCEEEEECCCCHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHCCCCEEEECCCCCHHHHHHHHHH
Q ss_conf             83688706874148899999999963022323641167534899999999
Q gi|254781149|r  142 RELILIGARPSMGKTTFALSTALHMAMSGHGVAFFSLEMDREKLGARALS  191 (266)
Q Consensus       142 g~LiviaaRP~mGKTa~alnia~~~a~~g~~Vl~fSlEMs~~ql~~R~ls  191 (266)
T Consensus       115 ~D~viiD~pp~l~~~~~~a---l~aa--d~vlipv~~~~~s~~~~~~~~~  159 (246)
T TIGR03371       115 RDWVLIDLPRGPSPITDQA---LAAA--DLVLVVVNADAACYATLHQLAL  159 (246)
T ss_pred             CCEEEEECCCCCCHHHHHH---HHHC--CEEEEEECCCHHHHHHHHHHHH
T ss_conf             9889994899874999999---9988--9479981899899999999999