SsuB

• Description: aliphatic sulfonate ABC transporter (binding protein)
  
  

Gene name	ssuB
Synonyms	ygaL
Essential	no
Product	aliphatic sulfonate ABC transporter (binding protein)
Function	sulfonate uptake
MW, pI	30 kDa, 8.667
Gene length, protein length	810 bp, 270 aa
Immediate neighbours	katA, ssuA
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU08830

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: no entry

• SubtiList entry: [1]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family: ABC transporter domain (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: P97027

• KEGG entry: [2]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: ssuB-ssuA-ssuC-ssuD-ygaN

• Sigma factor: SigA

• Regulation: repressed in the presence of cysteine (CymR) PubMed
  • repressed in the presence of cysteine (CymR) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism: CymR: transcription repression PubMed
  • CymR: transcription repression PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Sergine Even, Pierre Burguière, Sandrine Auger, Olga Soutourina, Antoine Danchin, Isabelle Martin-Verstraete
Global control of cysteine metabolism by CymR in Bacillus subtilis.
J Bacteriol: 2006, 188(6);2184-97
[PubMed:16513748] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Kyle N Erwin, Shunji Nakano, Peter Zuber
Sulfate-dependent repression of genes that function in organosulfur metabolism in Bacillus subtilis requires Spx.
J Bacteriol: 2005, 187(12);4042-9
[PubMed:15937167] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Y Quentin, G Fichant, F Denizot
Inventory, assembly and analysis of Bacillus subtilis ABC transport systems.
J Mol Biol: 1999, 287(3);467-84
[PubMed:10092453] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Jan R van der Ploeg, Nicola J Cummings, Thomas Leisinger, Ian F Connerton
Bacillus subtilis genes for the utilization of sulfur from aliphatic sulfonates.
Microbiology (Reading): 1998, 144 ( Pt 9);2555-2561
[PubMed:9782504] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

1. van der Ploeg JR, Cummings NJ, Leisinger T, Connerton IF. (1998) Bacillus subtilis genes for the utilization of sulfur from aliphatic sulfonates. Microbiology Sep;144(Pt9): 2555-61. PubMed
2. Author1, Author2 & Author3 (year) Title Journal volume: page-page. PubMed