XylA

• Description: xylose isomerase
  
  

Gene name	xylA
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	xylose isomerase
Function	utilization of xylan and xylose
Metabolic function and regulation of this protein in SubtiPathways: Sugar catabolism
MW, pI	50 kDa, 5.635
Gene length, protein length	1335 bp, 445 aa
Immediate neighbours	xylR, xylB
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU17600

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: D-xylose = D-xylulose (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Protein family: xylose isomerase 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: cytoplasm (according to Swiss-Prot)

Database entries

• Structure: 1A0D (Geobacillus stearothermophilus)

• Swiss prot entry: P04788

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number: 5.3.1.5

Expression and regulation

• Operon: xylA-xylB

• Sigma factor: SigA

• Regulation: repressed by glucose (CcpA) , carbon catabolite repression (CcpA), induction by xylose (XylR)

• Regulatory mechanism: CcpA: transcription repression, CcpA: transcription repression, XylR: transcription repression

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

Labs working on this gene/protein

Wolfgang Hillen, Erlangen University, Germany Homepage

References

M K Dahl, J Degenkolb, W Hillen
Transcription of the xyl operon is controlled in Bacillus subtilis by tandem overlapping operators spaced by four base-pairs.
J Mol Biol: 1994, 243(3);413-24
[PubMed:7966270] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

A Kraus, C Hueck, D Gärtner, W Hillen
Catabolite repression of the Bacillus subtilis xyl operon involves a cis element functional in the context of an unrelated sequence, and glucose exerts additional xylR-dependent repression.
J Bacteriol: 1994, 176(6);1738-45
[PubMed:8132469] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

D Gärtner, J Degenkolb, J A Ripperger, R Allmansberger, W Hillen
Regulation of the Bacillus subtilis W23 xylose utilization operon: interaction of the Xyl repressor with the xyl operator and the inducer xylose.
Mol Gen Genet: 1992, 232(3);415-22
[PubMed:1588910] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

S Jacob, R Allmansberger, D Gärtner, W Hillen
Catabolite repression of the operon for xylose utilization from Bacillus subtilis W23 is mediated at the level of transcription and depends on a cis site in the xylA reading frame.
Mol Gen Genet: 1991, 229(2);189-96
[PubMed:1921970] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

D Gärtner, M Geissendörfer, W Hillen
Expression of the Bacillus subtilis xyl operon is repressed at the level of transcription and is induced by xylose.
J Bacteriol: 1988, 170(7);3102-9
[PubMed:2454911] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)