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• Description: inhibitor of AbrB activity
  
  

Gene name	abbA
Synonyms	ykzF
Essential	no
Product	anti-repressor
Function	inhibition of AbrB
MW, pI	7 kDa, 4.642
Gene length, protein length	195 bp, 65 aa
Immediate neighbours	ykuK, ykuL
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU14120

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: inhibition of AbrB activity PubMed

• Protein family:

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions: AbbA-AbrB, AbbA-AbrB PubMed

• Localization:

Database entries

• Structure:

• Swiss prot entry: O31697

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon:

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation: repressed by glucose (4.3-fold) (CcpA) PubMed, subject to carbon catabolite repression (4-fold: CcpA) PubMed, expressed at onset of stationary phase (Spo0A) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism: CcpA: transcription repression, CcpA: transcription repression PubMed, Spo0A: transcription activation by Spo0A~P PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

Labs working on this gene/protein

Richard Losick, Harvard Univ., Cambridge, USA homepage

References

1. Blencke et al. (2003) Transcriptional profiling of gene expression in response to glucose in Bacillus subtilis: regulation of the central metabolic pathways. Metab Eng. 5: 133-149 PubMed
2. Banse et al. (2008) Parallel pathways of repression and antirepression governing the transition to stationary phase in Bacillus subtilis.Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 105: 15547-15552. PubMed
3. Blencke, H.-M., Homuth, G., Ludwig, H., Mäder, U., Hecker, M. & Stülke, J. (2003) Transcriptional profiling of gene expression in response to glucose in Bacillus subtilis: regulation of the central metabolic pathways. Metab. Engn. 5: 133-149. PubMed
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