YkuN

• Description: flavodoxin, binds FMN, replaces ferredoxin under conditions of iron limitation, probably involved in electron transfer to nitric oxide synthase
  
  

Gene name	ykuN
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	flavodoxin
Function	electron transfer
Metabolic function and regulation of this protein in SubtiPathways: Lys, Thr
MW, pI	17 kDa, 3.827
Gene length, protein length	474 bp, 158 aa
Immediate neighbours	ccpC, ykuO
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU14150

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family: flavodoxin-like domain (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions: YkuN-BioI PubMed, YjiB-YkuN PubMed

• Localization:

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: O34737

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: ykuN-ykuO-ykuP PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigA PubMed

• Regulation:
  • repressed unless the cells enter an iron starvation (Fur) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • Fur: transcription repression PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody: