ArsR

• Description: arsenic resistance operon repressor
  
  

Gene name	arsR
Synonyms	yqcJ
Essential	no
Product	transcription repressor
Function	regulation of as (III) efflux
MW, pI	12 kDa, 4.883
Gene length, protein length	315 bp, 105 aa
Immediate neighbours	yqcK, yqcI
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
Genetic context This image was kindly provided by SubtiList

Categories containing this gene/protein

transcription factors and their control, resistance against toxic metals, Skin element

This gene is a member of the following regulons

ArsR regulon, SigF regulon

The ArsR regulon

• arsR-yqcK-arsB-arsC

The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU25810

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family:

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

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Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: P45949

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: arsR-yqcK-arsB-arsC PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigA PubMed, SigF PubMed

• Regulation:
  • expressed early during sporulation in the forespore (SigF) PubMed
  • expressed in the presence of toxic metal ions (As(III), Cd(II) and Ag(I)) (ArsR) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • ArsR: transcription repression PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Stephanie T Wang, Barbara Setlow, Erin M Conlon, Jessica L Lyon, Daisuke Imamura, Tsutomu Sato, Peter Setlow, Richard Losick, Patrick Eichenberger
The forespore line of gene expression in Bacillus subtilis.
J Mol Biol: 2006, 358(1);16-37
[PubMed:16497325] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Charles M Moore, Ahmed Gaballa, Monica Hui, Rick W Ye, John D Helmann
Genetic and physiological responses of Bacillus subtilis to metal ion stress.
Mol Microbiol: 2005, 57(1);27-40
[PubMed:15948947] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

T Sato, Y Kobayashi
The ars operon in the skin element of Bacillus subtilis confers resistance to arsenate and arsenite.
J Bacteriol: 1998, 180(7);1655-61
[PubMed:9537360] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)