ThiC

• Description: biosynthesis of the pyrimidine moiety of thiamine
  
  

Gene name	thiC
Synonyms	thiA
Essential	no
Product	unknown
Function	biosynthesis of thiamine
MW, pI	65 kDa, 5.262
Gene length, protein length	1770 bp, 590 aa
Immediate neighbours	ygaJ, ygaK
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU08790

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: no entry

• SubtiList entry: [1]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family: thiC 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:

Database entries

• Structure: 1G6C

• UniProt: P45740

• KEGG entry: [2]

• E.C. number:

Additional information

• subject to Clp-dependent proteolysis upon glucose starvation PubMed

Expression and regulation

• Operon:

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation:
  • repressed by thiamine and 2-methyl-4-amino-5-hydroxymethylpyrimidine PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information: subject to Clp-dependent proteolysis upon glucose starvation PubMed

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Reviews

Christopher T Jurgenson, Tadhg P Begley, Steven E Ealick
The structural and biochemical foundations of thiamin biosynthesis.
Annu Rev Biochem: 2009, 78;569-603
[PubMed:19348578] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Original publications

Ghislain Schyns, Sébastien Potot, Yi Geng, Teresa M Barbosa, Adriano Henriques, John B Perkins
Isolation and characterization of new thiamine-deregulated mutants of Bacillus subtilis.
J Bacteriol: 2005, 187(23);8127-36
[PubMed:16291685] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Y Zhang, T P Begley
Cloning, sequencing and regulation of thiA, a thiamin biosynthesis gene from Bacillus subtilis.
Gene: 1997, 198(1-2);73-82
[PubMed:9370266] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)