YveA

• Description: aspartate/ glutamate transporter
  
  

Gene name	yveA
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	aspartate/ glutamate transporter
Function	aspartate uptake
MW, pI	56 kDa, 9.675
Gene length, protein length	1560 bp, 520 aa
Immediate neighbours	levB, yvdT
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU34470

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: no entry

• SubtiList entry: [1]

Categories containing this gene/protein

transporters/ other, biosynthesis/ acquisition of amino acids, utilization of amino acids, sporulation proteins, membrane proteins

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family:

• Paralogous protein(s): YbeC

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:

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

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: O07002

• KEGG entry: [2]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon:
  • sacB-levB-yveA PubMed
  • yveA PubMed

• Sigma factor:
  • sacB: SigA PubMed
  • yveA: SigG PubMed

• Regulation:
  • induction by sucrose (at high concentration) (SacY) PubMed
  • expressed during sporulation in the forespore (SigG) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • SacY: binding to a RNA switch (transcriptional antitermination) PubMed
  • DegU-P: transcription activation PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody: