AccA

• Description: acetyl-CoA carboxylase (alpha subunit)
  
  

Gene name	accA
Synonyms
Essential	yes PubMed
Product	acetyl-CoA carboxylase (alpha subunit))
Function	production of malonyl-CoA, the substrate for fatty acid biosynthesis
MW, pI	36 kDa, 6.087
Gene length, protein length	975 bp, 325 aa
Immediate neighbours	pfkA, accD
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
Genetic context This image was kindly provided by SubtiList

The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU29200

Phenotypes of a mutant

essential PubMed

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: ATP + acetyl-CoA + HCO₃^- = ADP + phosphate + malonyl-CoA (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Protein family: accA 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), Membrane-proximal (Spotty) PubMed

Database entries

• Structure:

• Swiss prot entry: O34847

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number: 6.4.1.2

Expression and regulation

• Operon:

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation:
  • expressed under conditions that trigger sporulation (Spo0A) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • Spo0A: transcription activation PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Jean-Christophe Meile, Ling Juan Wu, S Dusko Ehrlich, Jeff Errington, Philippe Noirot
Systematic localisation of proteins fused to the green fluorescent protein in Bacillus subtilis: identification of new proteins at the DNA replication factory.
Proteomics: 2006, 6(7);2135-46
[PubMed:16479537] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Christoph Freiberg, Nina A Brunner, Guido Schiffer, Thomas Lampe, Jens Pohlmann, Michael Brands, Martin Raabe, Dieter Häbich, Karl Ziegelbauer
Identification and characterization of the first class of potent bacterial acetyl-CoA carboxylase inhibitors with antibacterial activity.
J Biol Chem: 2004, 279(25);26066-73
[PubMed:15066985] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Virginie Molle, Masaya Fujita, Shane T Jensen, Patrick Eichenberger, José E González-Pastor, Jun S Liu, Richard Losick
The Spo0A regulon of Bacillus subtilis.
Mol Microbiol: 2003, 50(5);1683-701
[PubMed:14651647] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)