SerA

• Description: phosphoglycerate dehydrogenase
  
  

Gene name	serA
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	phosphoglycerate dehydrogenase
Function	biosynthesis of serine
Metabolic function and regulation of this protein in SubtiPathways: Ala, Gly, Ser
MW, pI	56 kDa, 5.617
Gene length, protein length	1575 bp, 525 aa
Immediate neighbours	ypzE, aroC
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU23070

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

Categories containing this gene/protein

biosynthesis/ acquisition of amino acids, membrane proteins

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: 3-phospho-D-glycerate + NAD⁺ = 3-phosphonooxypyruvate + NADH (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Protein family: D-isomer specific 2-hydroxyacid dehydrogenase family (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification: S-cysteinylation after diamide stress (C410)PubMed

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:

• Localization: membrane PubMed

Database entries

• Structure: 1YBA (from E. coli, 30% identity, 52% similarity) PubMed

• UniProt: P35136

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number: 1.1.1.95

Expression and regulation

• Operon: serA PubMed

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation:

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion: pGP187 (in pAC7), available in Stülke lab

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Hannes Hahne, Susanne Wolff, Michael Hecker, Dörte Becher
From complementarity to comprehensiveness--targeting the membrane proteome of growing Bacillus subtilis by divergent approaches.
Proteomics: 2008, 8(19);4123-36
[PubMed:18763711] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Falko Hochgräfe, Jörg Mostertz, Dierk-Christoph Pöther, Dörte Becher, John D Helmann, Michael Hecker
S-cysteinylation is a general mechanism for thiol protection of Bacillus subtilis proteins after oxidative stress.
J Biol Chem: 2007, 282(36);25981-5
[PubMed:17611193] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

James R Thompson, Jessica K Bell, Judy Bratt, Gregory A Grant, Leonard J Banaszak
Vmax regulation through domain and subunit changes. The active form of phosphoglycerate dehydrogenase.
Biochemistry: 2005, 44(15);5763-73
[PubMed:15823035] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

V Azevedo, A Sorokin, S D Ehrlich, P Serror
The transcriptional organization of the Bacillus subtilis 168 chromosome region between the spoVAF and serA genetic loci.
Mol Microbiol: 1993, 10(2);397-405
[PubMed:7934830] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)