YwjA

• Description: similar to ABC transporter (ATP-binding protein)
  
  

Gene name	ywjA
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	ABC transporter (ATP-binding protein)
Function	unknown
MW, pI	64 kDa, 6.137
Gene length, protein length	1725 bp, 575 aa
Immediate neighbours	ywjB, ywiE
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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Categories containing this gene/protein

ABC transporters, membrane proteins

This gene is a member of the following regulons

Fur regulon

The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU37230

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: no entry

• SubtiList entry: [1]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family: ABC transporter family (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains: has both a membrane-spanning and an ATP-binding domain PubMed

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:

• Localization: membrane PubMed

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: P45861

• KEGG entry: [2]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon:

• Expression browser: ywjA PubMed

• Sigma factor:

• 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:

References

Noel Baichoo, Tao Wang, Rick Ye, John D Helmann
Global analysis of the Bacillus subtilis Fur regulon and the iron starvation stimulon.
Mol Microbiol: 2002, 45(6);1613-29
[PubMed:12354229] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Y Quentin, G Fichant, F Denizot
Inventory, assembly and analysis of Bacillus subtilis ABC transport systems.
J Mol Biol: 1999, 287(3);467-84
[PubMed:10092453] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)