Pta

• Description: phosphotransacetylase
  
  

Gene name	pta
Synonyms	ipa-88d, ywfJ
Essential	no
Product	phosphotransacetylase
Function	overflow metabolism
MW, pI	34 kDa, 4.649
Gene length, protein length	969 bp, 323 aa
Immediate neighbours	cysL, ywfI
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU37660

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: Acetyl-CoA + phosphate = CoA + acetyl phosphate (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Protein family: phosphate acetyltransferase and butyryltransferase family (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification: phosphorylation on (Ser-123 OR Thr-128 OR Ser-129) PubMed

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:

• Localization: cytoplasm (according to Swiss-Prot)

Database entries

• Structure: 1XCO (complex with acetylphosphate), 1TD9

• Swiss prot entry: P39646

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number: 2.3.1.8

Expression and regulation

• Operon:

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation: expression activated by glucose (2.6 fold) (CcpA) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

1. Blencke et al. (2003) Transcriptional profiling of gene expression in response to glucose in Bacillus subtilis: regulation of the central metabolic pathways. Metab Eng. 5: 133-149 PubMed
2. Macek et al. (2007) The serine/ threonine/ tyrosine phosphoproteome of the model bacterium Bacillus subtilis. Mol. Cell. Proteomics 6: 697-707 PubMed
3. Presecan-Siedel E, Galinier A, Longin R, Deutscher J, Danchin A, Glaser P, Martin-Verstraete I (1999) The catabolite regulation of the pta gene as part of carbon flow pathways in Bacillus subtilis. J Bacteriol 181:6889-6897. PubMed
4. Shin BS, Choi SK, Park SH. 1999. Regulation of the Bacillus subtilis phosphotransacetylase gene. J. Biochem. 126:333-339. PubMed
5. Author1, Author2 & Author3 (year) Title Journal volume: page-page. PubMed