GlcU

• Description: probable glucose uptake protein
  
  

Gene name	glcU
Synonyms	ycxE
Essential	no
Product	unknown
Function	unknown
MW, pI	30 kDa, 10.667
Gene length, protein length	861 bp, 287 aa
Immediate neighbours	gabD, gdh
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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Categories containing this gene/protein

transporters/ other, sporulation proteins, membrane proteins

This gene is a member of the following regulons

SigG regulon, SpoVT regulon

The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU03920

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family: View classification (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:

• Localization:
  • cell membrane (according to Swiss-Prot)

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: P40420

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: glcU-gdh PubMed

• Expression browser: glcU PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigG PubMed

• Regulation:
  • expressed during sporulation (SigG, SpoVT) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • SpoVT: transcription repression PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

I Bagyan, J Hobot, S Cutting
A compartmentalized regulator of developmental gene expression in Bacillus subtilis.
J Bacteriol: 1996, 178(15);4500-7
[PubMed:8755877] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

P N Rather, C P Moran
Compartment-specific transcription in Bacillus subtilis: identification of the promoter for gdh.
J Bacteriol: 1988, 170(11);5086-92
[PubMed:3141376] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)