SacT

• Description: transcriptional antiterminator for the sacP-sacA-ywdA operon
  
  

Gene name	sacT
Synonyms	ipa-47d
Essential	no
Product	transcriptional antiterminator
Function	regulation of sucrose utilization
Interactions involving this protein in SubtInteract: SacT
Metabolic function and regulation of this protein in SubtiPathways: Sugar catabolism, Stress
MW, pI	31 kDa, 5.587
Gene length, protein length	828 bp, 276 aa
Immediate neighbours	ywcJ, ywcI
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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Categories containing this gene/protein

utilization of specific carbon sources, transcription factors and their control, RNA binding regulators, phosphoproteins

The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU38070

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: binding to the mRNA of the sacP-sacA operon, causes transcription antitermination (in presence of sucrose and absence of glucose)

• Protein family: transcriptional antiterminator bglG family (according to Swiss-Prot) BglG family of antiterminators

• Paralogous protein(s): LicT, SacY, GlcT

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions: PtsH-SacT

• Localization:

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: P26212

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: sacT PubMed

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation:
  • repressed by casamino acids PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant: GP429 (spc), available in Stülke lab

• Expression vector:
  • for expression, purification of both PRDs in E. coli with N-terminal His-tag, in pWH844: pGP166, available in Stülke lab
  • for expression, purification of PRD-1 in E. coli with N-terminal His-tag, in pWH844: pGP426, available in Stülke lab
  • for expression, purification of PRD-2 in E. coli with N-terminal His-tag, in pWH844: pGP427, available in Stülke lab
  • for expression, purification of PRD-1 in E. coli with N-terminal His-tag and thrombin cleavage site, in pGP570: pGP439, available in Stülke lab
  • for expression, purification of PRD-2 in E. coli with N-terminal His-tag and thrombin cleavage site, in pGP570: pGP440, available in Stülke lab
  • for expression, purification of the RNA-binding domain in E. coli with N-terminal His-tag and thrombin cleavage site, in pGP570: pGP571, available in Stülke lab
  • for expression of the RNA-binding domain in B. subtilis, in pBQ200: pGP446, available in Stülke lab

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody: