GlpF

• Description: glycerol facilitator
  
  

Gene name	glpF
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	glycerol facilitator
Function	glycerol uptake
Metabolic function and regulation of this protein in SubtiPathways: Sugar catabolism
MW, pI	28 kDa, 9.506
Gene length, protein length	822 bp, 274 aa
Immediate neighbours	glpP, glpK
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU09280

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family: View classification (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:

• UniProt: P18156

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: glpF-glpK PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigA

• Regulation:
  • repressed by glucose (8-fold) (CcpA) PubMed
  • induction by glycerol (GlpP)

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • CcpA: transcription repression
  • GlpP-dependent RNA switch (transcriptional antitermination)

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody: