AraE

• Description: L-arabinose permease
  
  

Gene name	araE
Synonyms	yvbR
Essential	no
Product	L-arabinose permease
Function	uptake of arabinose, galactose and xylose
Gene expression levels in SubtiExpress: araE
Metabolic function and regulation of this protein in SubtiPathways: Sugar catabolism
MW, pI	50 kDa, 9.259
Gene length, protein length	1392 bp, 464 aa
Immediate neighbours	cggR, araR
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
Genetic context This image was kindly provided by SubtiList
Expression at a glance   PubMed

Categories containing this gene/protein

transporters/ other, utilization of specific carbon sources, membrane proteins

This gene is a member of the following regulons

AraR regulon, CcpA regulon

The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU33960

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: transports arabinose, and also xylose and galactose PubMed

• Protein family:

• Paralogous protein(s):

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: P96710

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: araE PubMed

• Expression browser: araE PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigA PubMed

• Regulation:
  • repressed by glucose (CcpA) PubMed
  • induced by arabinose (AraR) PubMed

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

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody: