Sfp/1

• Description: phosphopantetheinyl transferase, inactive pseudogene in strain 168
  
  

Gene name	sfp
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	phosphopantetheinyl transferase
Function	phosphopantetheinylates a serine residue in each of the seven peptidyl carrier protein domains of the first three subunits of surfactin synthetase (SrfABC)
MW, pI	19 kDa, 8.38
Gene length, protein length	495 bp, 165 aa
Immediate neighbours	ycxD, yczE
Gene sequence (+200bp)	Protein sequence
Caution: The sequence for this gene in SubtiList contains errors
Genetic context This image was kindly provided by SubtiList

The gene

Basic information

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Phenotypes of a mutant

No swarming motility on B medium. PubMed

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: no entry

• SubtiList entry: [1]

Additional information

This gene is a pseudogene in B. subtilis 168 due to a mutation that resulted in an internal frameshift. The second part of the pseudogene is sfp/2.

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family: Gsp/sfp/hetI/acpT family (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

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Database entries

• Structure: 1QR0 (complex with CoA)

• Swiss prot entry:

• KEGG entry: [2]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

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Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

Labs working on this gene/protein

Mohamed Marahiel, Marburg University, Germany homepage

References

1. Hamze et al. (2009) Identification of genes required for different stages of dendritic swarming in Bacillus subtilis, with a novel role for phrC. Microbiology 155: 398-412. PubMed
2. Author1, Author2 & Author3 (year) Title Journal volume: page-page. PubMed