FadN

• Description: 3-hydroxyacyl-CoA dehydrogenase (acetoacetyl-CoA)
  
  

Gene name	fadN
Synonyms	yusL
Essential	no
Product	3-hydroxyacyl-CoA dehydrogenase (acetoacetyl-CoA)
Function	fatty acid degradation
MW, pI	89 kDa, 6.53
Gene length, protein length	2445 bp, 815 aa
Immediate neighbours	fadA, fadM
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU32840

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: (S)-3-hydroxyacyl-CoA + NAD⁺ = 3-oxoacyl-CoA + NADH (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Protein family: 3-hydroxyacyl-CoA dehydrogenase 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:

• Swiss prot entry: O32178

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number: 1.1.1.35

Expression and regulation

• Operon:

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation: repressed by glucose (4.5-fold) PubMed
  • repressed in the absence of long-chain fatty acids (FadR) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • FadR: transcription repression PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

1. Blencke et al. (2003) Transcriptional profiling of gene expression in response to glucose in Bacillus subtilis: regulation of the central metabolic pathways. Metab Eng. 5: 133-149 PubMed
2. Matsuoka H, Hirooka K, Fujita Y. (2007) Organization and function of the YsiA regulon of Bacillus subtilis involved in fatty acid degradation. J Biol Chem. Feb 23;282(8): 5180-94. PubMed
3. Author1, Author2 & Author3 (year) Title Journal volume: page-page. PubMed