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• Description: 2-oxoglutarate permease (proton symporter)
  
  

Gene name	yoaB
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	2-oxoglutarate permease (proton symporter)
Function	uptake of alpha-ketoglutarate
MW, pI	45 kDa, 9.413
Gene length, protein length	1242 bp, 414 aa
Immediate neighbours	yoaA, yoaC
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU18540

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: no entry

• SubtiList entry: [1]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family: acetyltransferase family (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s): CsbX

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:

• Localization: membrane PubMed

Database entries

• Structure:

• Swiss prot entry: O34864

• KEGG entry: [2]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: yoaD-yoaC-yoaB PubMed

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation:
  • repressed by casamino acids PubMed
  • induced by methionine starvation (S-box) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism: S-box: transcription termination/ antitermination, the S-box riboswitch binds S-adenosylmethionine resulting in termination PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

1. Mäder et al. (2002) Transcriptome and Proteome Analysis of Bacillus subtilis Gene Expression Modulated by Amino Acid Availability. J. Bacteriol 184: 1844288-4295 PubMed
2. Hahne et al. (2008) From complementarity to comprehensiveness - targeting the membrane proteome of growing Bacillus subtilis by divergent approaches. Proteomics 8: 4123-4136 PubMed
3. Author1, Author2 & Author3 (year) Title Journal volume: page-page. PubMed