PerR

• Description: transcriptional repressor of the peroxide regulon
  
  

Gene name	perR
Synonyms	ygaG
Essential	no
Product	transcriptional repressor
Function	regulation of the response to peroxide
Metabolic function and regulation of this protein in SubtiPathways: Stress
MW, pI	16 kDa, 5.888
Gene length, protein length	435 bp, 145 aa
Immediate neighbours	ygaF, ygzB
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU08730

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family: Fur family (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s): Zur, Fur

Genes repressed by PerR

ahpC-ahpF PubMed, zosA

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification: selective metal catalyzed oxidation of two histidine residues of the regulatory site results in induction (loss of DNA-binding activity) PubMed

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:

• Localization: cytoplasm (according to Swiss-Prot)

Database entries

• Structure: 2RGV

• UniProt: P71086

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: perR PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigA PubMed

• Regulation:
  • negative autoregulation PubMed
  • induced in the presence of hydrogen peroxide (PerR) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • PerR: transcription repression PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

Labs working on this gene/protein

John Helmann, Cornell University, USA Homepage

References

Original Publications

PubMed