LicT

• Description: transcriptional antiterminator of the bglP-bglH operon and the bglS gene
  
  

Gene name	licT
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	transcriptional antiterminator (BglG family)
Function	substrate-dependent induction of bglP-bglH and bglS
Metabolic function and regulation of this protein in SubtiPathways: Sugar catabolism
MW, pI	32 kDa, 5.944
Gene length, protein length	831 bp, 277 aa
Immediate neighbours	bglS, yxiP
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU39080

Phenotypes of a mutant

no expression of the bglP-bglH operon

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

Categories containing this gene/protein

utilization of specific carbon sources, transcription factors and their control, RNA binding regulators, phosphoproteins

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: binding to the mRNAs of bglS and the bglP-bglH operon, causes transcription antitermination (in presence of salicin and absence of glucose)

• Protein family: transcriptional antiterminator BglG family of antiterminators (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s): SacY, GlcT, SacT

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:
  • N-terminal RNA binding domain Pubmed
  • 2xPRD (PTS regulation domains) PubMed

• Modification:
  • phosphorylation at His-100 in PRD-1 by phosphorylated BglP, inhibits LicT antitermination activity
  • phosphorylation at His-207 and/or His-269 in PRD-2 by His-P-HPr, stimulates LicT antitermination activity

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions: PtsH-LicT

• Localization:

Database entries

• Structure: 1L1C (complex with RAT), 1TLV (PRDs)

• UniProt: P39805

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: licT-bglS PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigA PubMed

• Regulation:

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant: GP427 (licTS, erm), available in the Stülke lab

• Expression vector:

• • for expression, purification of both PRDs in E. coli with N-terminal His-tag, in pWH844: pGP165, available in Stülke lab
  • for expression, purification of the RNA-binding domain in E. coli with N-terminal His-tag, in pWH844: pGP315, available in Stülke lab
  • for expression, purification of the RNA-binding domain in E. coli with N-terminal His-tag and thrombin cleavage site, in pGP570: pGP572, available in Stülke lab

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

Labs working on this gene/protein

Stephane Aymerich, Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, INRA Paris-Grignon, France

Josef Deutscher, Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, INRA Paris-Grignon, France

Michael Hecker, Greifswald, Germany Homepage

References

Original description

K Schnetz, J Stülke, S Gertz, S Krüger, M Krieg, M Hecker, B Rak
LicT, a Bacillus subtilis transcriptional antiterminator protein of the BglG family.
J Bacteriol: 1996, 178(7);1971-9
[PubMed:8606172] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Control of LicT activity

Cordula Lindner, Michael Hecker, Dominique Le Coq, Josef Deutscher
Bacillus subtilis mutant LicT antiterminators exhibiting enzyme I- and HPr-independent antitermination affect catabolite repression of the bglPH operon.
J Bacteriol: 2002, 184(17);4819-28
[PubMed:12169607] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

P Tortosa, N Declerck, H Dutartre, C Lindner, J Deutscher, D Le Coq
Sites of positive and negative regulation in the Bacillus subtilis antiterminators LicT and SacY.
Mol Microbiol: 2001, 41(6);1381-93
[PubMed:11580842] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

C Lindner, A Galinier, M Hecker, J Deutscher
Regulation of the activity of the Bacillus subtilis antiterminator LicT by multiple PEP-dependent, enzyme I- and HPr-catalysed phosphorylation.
Mol Microbiol: 1999, 31(3);995-1006
[PubMed:10048041] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

S Krüger, S Gertz, M Hecker
Transcriptional analysis of bglPH expression in Bacillus subtilis: evidence for two distinct pathways mediating carbon catabolite repression.
J Bacteriol: 1996, 178(9);2637-44
[PubMed:8626332] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Structural analysis of LicT

LicT-RNA interaction