FabL

• Description: enoyl-acyl carrier protein reductase
  
  

Gene name	fabL
Synonyms	yfhR, ygaA
Essential	no
Product	enoyl-acyl carrier protein reductase
Function	fatty acid biosynthesis
Metabolic function and regulation of this protein in SubtiPathways: Fatty acid and phospholipid biosynthesis
MW, pI	27 kDa, 5.967
Gene length, protein length	750 bp, 250 aa
Immediate neighbours	yfhS, sspE
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU08650

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family:

• Paralogous protein(s): FabI, one of the two proteins has to be present for viability PubMed

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:

• Localization:

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: P71079

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon:
  • yfhQ-fabL-sspE PubMed
  • fabL-sspE PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigA PubMed, SigG PubMed

• Regulation:
  • repressed by YfhP during exponential growth PubMed
  • repressed by SpoVT during forespore expression PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Reviews

Yasutaro Fujita, Hiroshi Matsuoka, Kazutake Hirooka
Regulation of fatty acid metabolism in bacteria.
Mol Microbiol: 2007, 66(4);829-39
[PubMed:17919287] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Stephen W White, Jie Zheng, Yong-Mei Zhang, Rock
The structural biology of type II fatty acid biosynthesis.
Annu Rev Biochem: 2005, 74;791-831
[PubMed:15952903] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Original Publications

Helena B Thomaides, Ella J Davison, Lisa Burston, Hazel Johnson, David R Brown, Alison C Hunt, Jeffery Errington, Lloyd Czaplewski
Essential bacterial functions encoded by gene pairs.
J Bacteriol: 2007, 189(2);591-602
[PubMed:17114254] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Leif Steil, Mónica Serrano, Adriano O Henriques, Uwe Völker
Genome-wide analysis of temporally regulated and compartment-specific gene expression in sporulating cells of Bacillus subtilis.
Microbiology (Reading): 2005, 151(Pt 2);399-420
[PubMed:15699190] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Hiroki Yamamoto, Masao Mori, Junichi Sekiguchi
Transcription of genes near the sspE locus of the Bacillus subtilis genome.
Microbiology (Reading): 1999, 145 ( Pt 8);2171-2180
[PubMed:10463184] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

I Bagyan, J Hobot, S Cutting
A compartmentalized regulator of developmental gene expression in Bacillus subtilis.
J Bacteriol: 1996, 178(15);4500-7
[PubMed:8755877] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)