OpuAB

• Description: glycine betaine ABC transporter (permease)
  
  

Gene name	opuAB
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	glycine betaine ABC transporter (permease)
Function	compatible solute transport
Metabolic function and regulation of this protein in SubtiPathways: Stress
MW, pI	30 kDa, 9.837
Gene length, protein length	846 bp, 282 aa
Immediate neighbours	opuAA, opuAC
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU02990

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: no entry

• SubtiList entry: [1]

Categories containing this gene/protein

ABC transporters, coping with hyper-osmotic stress, membrane proteins

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family: ABC transmembrane type-1 domain (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:* Interactions: OpuAA-OpuAB-OpuAC PubMed

• Localization: cell membrane PubMed

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: P46921

• KEGG entry: [2]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon:

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation:

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

Labs working on this gene/protein

Erhard Bremer, University of Marburg, Germany homepage