HemY

• Description: protoporphyrinogen IX oxidase
  
  

Gene name	hemY
Synonyms	hemG
Essential	no
Product	protoporphyrinogen IX oxidase
Function	heme biosynthesis
MW, pI	51 kDa, 8.042
Gene length, protein length	1410 bp, 470 aa
Immediate neighbours	hemH, yhgD
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU10140

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

Categories containing this gene/protein

biosynthesis of cofactors

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: Protoporphyrinogen-IX + 3 O₂ = protoporphyrin-IX + 3 H₂O₂ (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Protein family: protoporphyrinogen oxidase 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: 3I6D

• UniProt: P32397

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number: 1.3.3.4

Expression and regulation

• Operon: hemE-hemH-hemY PubMed

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation:

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody: