Mdh

• Description: malate dehydrogenase
  
  

Gene name	mdh
Synonyms	citH
Essential	no
Product	malate dehydrogenase
Function	TCA cycle
Metabolic function and regulation of this protein in SubtiPathways: Central C-metabolism, Central C-metabolism
MW, pI	33 kDa, 4.727
Gene length, protein length	936 bp, 312 aa
Immediate neighbours	icd, phoP
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU29120

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: (S)-malate + NAD⁺ = oxaloacetate + NADH (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Protein family: MDH type 3 family (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information: Reversible Michaelis-Menten PubMed

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:
  • Inhibited by Mg2+, Ca2+, Zn2+, Ag2+ and Hg2+ PubMed PubMed
  • Inhibited by oxaloacetate (above 1mM) and malate (above 7,7mM) PubMed

• Interactions:

• Localization: cytoplasm (according to Swiss-Prot), membrane associated PubMed

Database entries

• Structure: 1EMD (E.coli)

• UniProt: P49814

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number: 1.1.1.37

Additional information

The enzyme is a tetramer PubMed

Expression and regulation

• Operon:
  • citZ-icd-mdh
  • icd-mdh

• Sigma factor: SigA

• Regulation: citZ: catabolite repression (CcpA), repression by glucose + glutamate (CcpC)
  • repressed in the presence of glucose and glutamate (CcpC) PubMed

mdh: constitutive

• Regulatory mechanism: CcpA: transcription repression, CcpC: transcription repression
  • CcpC: transcription repression (molecular inducer: citrate) PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant: GP719 (spc), available in Stülke lab

• Expression vector:
  • pGP1123 (N-terminal Strep-tag, for SPINE, purification from B. subtilis, in pGP380) (available in Stülke lab)

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system: B. pertussis adenylate cyclase-based bacterial two hybrid system (BACTH), available in Stülke lab

• Antibody:

References

Hannes Hahne, Susanne Wolff, Michael Hecker, Dörte Becher
From complementarity to comprehensiveness--targeting the membrane proteome of growing Bacillus subtilis by divergent approaches.
Proteomics: 2008, 8(19);4123-36
[PubMed:18763711] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

C Jourlin-Castelli, N Mani, M M Nakano, A L Sonenshein
CcpC, a novel regulator of the LysR family required for glucose repression of the citB gene in Bacillus subtilis.
J Mol Biol: 2000, 295(4);865-78
[PubMed:10656796] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

A K Tyagi, F A Siddiqui, T A Venkitasubramanian
Studies on the purification and characterization of malate dehydrogenase from Mycobacterium phlei.
Biochim Biophys Acta: 1977, 485(2);255-67
[PubMed:922015] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

A YOSHIDA
ENZYMIC PROPERTIES OF MALATE DEHYDROGENASE OF BACILLUS SUBTILIS.
J Biol Chem: 1965, 240;1118-24
[PubMed:14284712] [WorldCat.org] (P p)