BirA

• Description: trigger enzyme: transcriptional repressor of the biotin operon / biotin-protein ligase
  
  

Gene name	birA
Synonyms
Essential	yes PubMed
Product	transcriptional repressor/ biotin-protein ligase
Function	regulation of biotin synthesis, addition of biotin to proteins
MW, pI	36 kDa, 6.769
Gene length, protein length	975 bp, 325 aa
Immediate neighbours	panB, cca
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU22440

Phenotypes of a mutant

essential PubMed

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: no entry

• SubtiList entry: [1]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: ATP + biotin + apo-[acetyl-CoA:carbon-dioxide ligase (ADP-forming)] = AMP + diphosphate + [acetyl-CoA:carbon-dioxide ligase (ADP-forming)] (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Protein family: pyrroline-5-carboxylate 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: cytoplasm (according to Swiss-Prot)

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: P42975

• KEGG entry: [2]

• E.C. number: 6.3.4.15

Expression and regulation

• Operon:

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation:

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

J B Perkins, S Bower, C L Howitt, R R Yocum, J Pero
Identification and characterization of transcripts from the biotin biosynthetic operon of Bacillus subtilis.
J Bacteriol: 1996, 178(21);6361-5
[PubMed:8892842] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

S Bower, J B Perkins, R R Yocum, C L Howitt, P Rahaim, J Pero
Cloning, sequencing, and characterization of the Bacillus subtilis biotin biosynthetic operon.
J Bacteriol: 1996, 178(14);4122-30
[PubMed:8763940] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

S Bower, J Perkins, R R Yocum, P Serror, A Sorokin, P Rahaim, C L Howitt, N Prasad, S D Ehrlich, J Pero
Cloning and characterization of the Bacillus subtilis birA gene encoding a repressor of the biotin operon.
J Bacteriol: 1995, 177(9);2572-5
[PubMed:7730294] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)