HemA

• Description: glutamyl-tRNA reductase
  
  

Gene name	hemA
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	glutamyl-tRNA reductase
Function	porphyrin biosynthesis
MW, pI	50 kDa, 5.313
Gene length, protein length	1365 bp, 455 aa
Immediate neighbours	yhfU, yhfW
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU28170

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: L-glutamate 1-semialdehyde + NADP⁺ + tRNA(Glu) = L-glutamyl-tRNA(Glu) + NADPH (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Protein family: glutamyl-tRNA reductase 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: cell membrane (according to Swiss-Prot)

Database entries

• Structure:

• Swiss prot entry: P16618

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number: 1.2.1.70

Expression and regulation

• Operon:

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation:
  • repressed in the absence of hydrogen peroxide (PerR) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • PerR: transcription repression PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

1. Author1, Author2 & Author3 (year) Title Journal volume: page-page. PubMed