SunA

• Description: sublancin 168 lantibiotic antimicrobial precursor peptide
  
  

Gene name	sunA
Synonyms	yolG
Essential	no
Product	sublancin 168 lantibiotic antimicrobial precursor peptide
Function	antimicrobial peptide
MW, pI	5 kDa, 7.963
Gene length, protein length	168 bp, 56 aa
Immediate neighbours	sunT, sunI
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU21480

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family: IPP isomerase type 2 family (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:

• Swiss prot entry: P68577

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: sunA

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation:
  • repressed during logrithmic growth (AbrB) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism: activated by YvrHb PubMed, repressed by AbrB PubMed, activated by Abh PubMed
  • AbrB: transcription repression PubMed

• Additional information: the mRNA is very stable (half-life > 15 min) PubMed

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

1. Author1, Author2 & Author3 (year) Title Journal volume: page-page. PubMed