HutP

• Description: transcriptional antiterminator of the hut operon
  
  

Gene name	hutP
Synonyms	hutP1
Essential	no
Product	transcriptional antiterminator
Function	regulation of histidine utilization
Metabolic function and regulation of this protein in SubtiPathways: His
MW, pI	16 kDa, 6.057
Gene length, protein length	453 bp, 151 aa
Immediate neighbours	abn2, hutH
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU39340

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family: hutP 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: 3BOY (complex bound to the hut mRNA), 1WPT

• UniProt: P10943

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: hutP-hutH-hutU-hutI-hutG-hutM PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigA PubMed

• Regulation:
  • repressed by glucose (CcpA) PubMed
  • repressed during growth in the presence of branched chain amino acids (CodY) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • CcpA: transcription repression PubMed
  • CodY: transcription repression PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Reviews

Thirumananseri Kumarevel
Structural insights of HutP-mediated regulation of transcription of the hut operon in Bacillus subtilis.
Biophys Chem: 2007, 128(1);1-12
[PubMed:17395359] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Penmetcha K R Kumar, Thirumananseri Kumarevel, Hiroshi Mizuno
Structural basis of HutP-mediated transcription anti-termination.
Curr Opin Struct Biol: 2006, 16(1);18-26
[PubMed:16427271] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Original publications

M Oda, N Kobayashi, Y Kurusu, M Fujita
Analysis of histidine-dependent antitermination in Bacillus subtilis hut operon.
Nucleic Acids Symp Ser: 2000, (44);5-6
[PubMed:12903241] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

S H Fisher, K Rohrer, A E Ferson
Role of CodY in regulation of the Bacillus subtilis hut operon.
J Bacteriol: 1996, 178(13);3779-84
[PubMed:8682780] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

L V Wray, S H Fisher
Analysis of Bacillus subtilis hut operon expression indicates that histidine-dependent induction is mediated primarily by transcriptional antitermination and that amino acid repression is mediated by two mechanisms: regulation of transcription initiation and inhibition of histidine transport.
J Bacteriol: 1994, 176(17);5466-73
[PubMed:8071225] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)