YcbE

• Description: galactarate/glucarate transporter in (proton symport)
  
  

Gene name	ycbE
Synonyms	gudP
Essential	no
Product	galactarate/glucarate transporter in (proton symport)
Function	glucarate uptake
MW, pI	49 kDa, 9.207
Gene length, protein length	1365 bp, 455 aa
Immediate neighbours	ycbD, ycbF
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU02480

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: no entry

• SubtiList entry: [1]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family: Phthalate permease 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: P42237

• KEGG entry: [2]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: ycbC-ycbD-ycbE-ycbF-ycbG-ycbH-ycbJ PubMed

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation: induced by D-glucarate/galactarate (YcbG) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism: YcbG: transcription repression PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Shigeo Hosoya, Kunio Yamane, Michio Takeuchi, Tsutomu Sato
Identification and characterization of the Bacillus subtilis D-glucarate/galactarate utilization operon ycbCDEFGHJ.
FEMS Microbiol Lett: 2002, 210(2);193-9
[PubMed:12044674] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)