BacF

• Description: aspartate aminotransferase involved in bacilysin synthesis
  
  

Gene name	bacF
Synonyms	ywfG, ipa-85d
Essential	no
Product	aspartate aminotransferase
Function	biosynthesis of the antibiotic bacilysin
MW, pI	44 kDa, 5.347
Gene length, protein length	1197 bp, 399 aa
Immediate neighbours	ywfH, bacE
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU37690

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: no entry

• SubtiList entry: [1]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: YwfG catalyzes transamination of tetrahydro-4-hydroxyphenylpyruvate (with L-Phe as amino donor), to form tetrahydrotyrosine PubMed

• Protein family: class-I pyridoxal-phosphate-dependent aminotransferase 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: P39643

• KEGG entry: [2]

• E.C. number: 2.6.1.1

Expression and regulation

• Operon: bacA-bacB-bacC-bacD-bacE-bacF PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigA PubMed

• Regulation:

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • CodY: transcription repression PubMed
  • AbrB: transcription repression PubMed
  • ScoC: transcription repression PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Sarah A Mahlstedt, Christopher T Walsh
Investigation of anticapsin biosynthesis reveals a four-enzyme pathway to tetrahydrotyrosine in Bacillus subtilis.
Biochemistry: 2010, 49(5);912-23
[PubMed:20052993] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Takashi Inaoka, Guojun Wang, Kozo Ochi
ScoC regulates bacilysin production at the transcription level in Bacillus subtilis.
J Bacteriol: 2009, 191(23);7367-71
[PubMed:19801406] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Ayten Yazgan Karataş, Seçil Cetin, Gülay Ozcengiz
The effects of insertional mutations in comQ, comP, srfA, spo0H, spo0A and abrB genes on bacilysin biosynthesis in Bacillus subtilis.
Biochim Biophys Acta: 2003, 1626(1-3);51-6
[PubMed:12697329] [WorldCat.org] (P p)

Takashi Inaoka, Kosaku Takahashi, Mayumi Ohnishi-Kameyama, Mitsuru Yoshida, Kozo Ochi
Guanine nucleotides guanosine 5'-diphosphate 3'-diphosphate and GTP co-operatively regulate the production of an antibiotic bacilysin in Bacillus subtilis.
J Biol Chem: 2003, 278(4);2169-76
[PubMed:12372825] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)