OppB

• Description: oligopeptide ABC transporter (permease)
  
  

Gene name	oppB
Synonyms	spo0KB
Essential	no
Product	oligopeptide ABC transporter (permease)
Function	initiation of sporulation, competence development
MW, pI	33 kDa, 9.863
Gene length, protein length	933 bp, 311 aa
Immediate neighbours	oppA, oppC
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU11440

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: no entry

• SubtiList entry: [1]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family: ABC transmembrane type-1 domain (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:

• Localization: cell membrane (according to Swiss-Prot), membrane PubMed

Database entries

• Structure:

• Swiss prot entry: P24138

• KEGG entry: [2]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon:

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation:
  • expressed in the absence of good nitrogen sources (glutamine or ammonium) (TnrA) PubMed
  • repressed during exponential growth (ScoC) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • TnrA: transcription activation PubMed
  • ScoC: transcription repression PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• 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)

Ken-ichi Yoshida, Hirotake Yamaguchi, Masaki Kinehara, Yo-hei Ohki, Yoshiko Nakaura, Yasutaro Fujita
Identification of additional TnrA-regulated genes of Bacillus subtilis associated with a TnrA box.
Mol Microbiol: 2003, 49(1);157-65
[PubMed:12823818] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

A Koide, M Perego, J A Hoch
ScoC regulates peptide transport and sporulation initiation in Bacillus subtilis.
J Bacteriol: 1999, 181(13);4114-7
[PubMed:10383984] [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)

J R LeDeaux, J M Solomon, A D Grossman
Analysis of non-polar deletion mutations in the genes of the spo0K (opp) operon of Bacillus subtilis.
FEMS Microbiol Lett: 1997, 153(1);63-9
[PubMed:9252573] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

M Perego, C F Higgins, S R Pearce, M P Gallagher, J A Hoch
The oligopeptide transport system of Bacillus subtilis plays a role in the initiation of sporulation.
Mol Microbiol: 1991, 5(1);173-85
[PubMed:1901616] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)