AcoB

• Description: acetoin dehydrogenase E1 component (TPP-dependent beta subunit)
  
  

Gene name	acoB
Synonyms	yfjJ
Essential	no
Product	acetoin dehydrogenase E1 component (TPP-dependent beta subunit)
Function	acetoin utilization
Metabolic function and regulation of this protein in SubtiPathways: Central C-metabolism
MW, pI	36 kDa, 4.396
Gene length, protein length	1026 bp, 342 aa
Immediate neighbours	acoA, acoC
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU08070

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:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:

• Localization: Membrane-proximal (Spotty) PubMed

Database entries

• Structure:

• Swiss prot entry: O34591

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: acoA-acoB-acoC-acoL PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigL PubMed

• Regulation: repressed by glucose (CcpA) , induced by acetoin (AcoR) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism: CcpA: transcription repression, AcoR: transcription activation (interaction with SigL-containing RNA polymerase) PubMed

• Additional information: the mRNA is very stable (half-life > 15 min) PubMed

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

Labs working on this gene/protein

Michel Debarbouille, Pasteur Institute, Paris, France Homepage