AsnO

• Description: asparagine synthase (glutamine-hydrolysing)
  
  

Gene name	asnO
Synonyms	yisO, yucB
Essential	no
Product	asparagine synthase (glutamine-hydrolysing))
Function	biosynthesis of asparagine
Metabolic function and regulation of this protein in SubtiPathways: Asp, Asn
MW, pI	70 kDa, 5.696
Gene length, protein length	1842 bp, 614 aa
Immediate neighbours	yisN, yizA
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU10790

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: ATP + L-aspartate + L-glutamine + H₂O = AMP + diphosphate + L-asparagine + L-glutamate (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Protein family: glutamine amidotransferase type-2 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:

Database entries

• Structure:

• Swiss prot entry: O05272

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number: 6.3.5.4

Expression and regulation

• Operon: asnO

• Sigma factor: sigE

• Regulation: expressed during sporulation (SigE)

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

K Yoshida, Y Fujita, S D Ehrlich
Three asparagine synthetase genes of Bacillus subtilis.
J Bacteriol: 1999, 181(19);6081-91
[PubMed:10498721] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)