EfeB

• Description: elemental iron uptake system (binding protein)
  
  

Gene name	ywbN
Synonyms	ipa-29d
Essential	no
Product	elemental iron uptake system (binding protein)
Function	iron uptake
MW, pI	45 kDa, 8.64
Gene length, protein length	1248 bp, 416 aa
Immediate neighbours	ywbO, ywbM
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag:

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family: DyP-type peroxidase family (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:

• Localization: secreted (according to Swiss-Prot), extracellular, secreted by the TatAY-TatCY complex

Database entries

• Structure:

• Swiss prot entry: P39597

• KEGG entry: BSU38260

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon:

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation:

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

Labs working on this gene/protein

Jan Maarten van Dijl, Groningen, Netherlands

References

Robyn T Eijlander, Magdalena A Kolbusz, Erwin M Berendsen, Oscar P Kuipers
Effects of altered TatC proteins on protein secretion efficiency via the twin-arginine translocation pathway of Bacillus subtilis.
Microbiology (Reading): 2009, 155(Pt 6);1776-1785
[PubMed:19383693] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)