MhqR

• Description: transcriptional repressor of dioxygenase/ glyoxalase genes
  
  

Gene name	mhqR
Synonyms	ykvE
Essential	no
Product	transcriptional repressor (MarR family)
Function	regulation of resistence to methyl-hydroxyquinone
MW, pI	16 kDa, 6.42
Gene length, protein length	435 bp, 145 aa
Immediate neighbours	kinD, motB
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU13670

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: no entry

• SubtiList entry: [1]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

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Extended information on the protein

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Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: O31672

• KEGG entry: [2]

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Expression and regulation

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Biological materials

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References

Stefanie Töwe, Montira Leelakriangsak, Kazuo Kobayashi, Nguyen Van Duy, Michael Hecker, Peter Zuber, Haike Antelmann
The MarR-type repressor MhqR (YkvE) regulates multiple dioxygenases/glyoxalases and an azoreductase which confer resistance to 2-methylhydroquinone and catechol in Bacillus subtilis.
Mol Microbiol: 2007, 66(1);40-54
[PubMed:17725564] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)