YbbA

• Description: putative bacillibactin esterase
  
  

Gene name	ybbA
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	putative bacillibactin esterase
Function	iron acquisition from bacillibactin
Gene expression levels in SubtiExpress: ybbA
Metabolic function and regulation of this protein in SubtiPathways: ybbA
MW, pI	21 kDa, 7.912
Gene length, protein length	567 bp, 189 aa
Immediate neighbours	ybaS, feuC
Sequences	Protein DNA DNA_with_flanks
Genetic context This image was kindly provided by SubtiList
Expression at a glance   PubMed

Categories containing this gene/protein

acquisition of iron, iron metabolism

This gene is a member of the following regulons

Btr regulon, CitB regulon, Fur regulon

The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU01600

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family:

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

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• Modification:

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• Localization:

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: P55192

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: feuA-feuB-feuC-ybbA PubMed

• Expression browser: ybbA PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigA PubMed

• Regulation:
  • repressed in the presence of iron (Fur, CitB) PubMed
  • induced in the presence of iron chelators bacillibactin or enterobactin (Btr) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • Fur: transcription repression PubMed
  • CitB: binding to the iron responsive element in the absence of iron
  • Btr: transcription activation in the presence of the co-activators bacillibactin or enterobactin PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody: