SrfAA

• Description: surfactin synthetase / competence
  
  

Gene name	srfAA
Synonyms	comL
Essential	no
Product	surfactin synthetase / competence
Function	antibiotic synthesis
MW, pI	401 kDa, 4.871
Gene length, protein length	10764 bp, 3588 aa
Immediate neighbours	hxlR, srfAB
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU03480

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family: ATP-dependent AMP-binding enzyme family (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification: phosphorylation on Ser-1006 PubMed

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:

• Localization: membrane PubMed

Database entries

• Structure:

• Swiss prot entry: P27206

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon:

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation:
  • repressed during growth in the presence of branched chain amino acids (CodY) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • CodY: transcription repression PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Hannes Hahne, Susanne Wolff, Michael Hecker, Dörte Becher
From complementarity to comprehensiveness--targeting the membrane proteome of growing Bacillus subtilis by divergent approaches.
Proteomics: 2008, 8(19);4123-36
[PubMed:18763711] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Mitsuo Ogura, Yasutaro Fujita
Bacillus subtilis rapD, a direct target of transcription repression by RghR, negatively regulates srfA expression.
FEMS Microbiol Lett: 2007, 268(1);73-80
[PubMed:17227471] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Boris Macek, Ivan Mijakovic, Jesper V Olsen, Florian Gnad, Chanchal Kumar, Peter R Jensen, Matthias Mann
The serine/threonine/tyrosine phosphoproteome of the model bacterium Bacillus subtilis.
Mol Cell Proteomics: 2007, 6(4);697-707
[PubMed:17218307] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Kentaro Hayashi, Taku Ohsawa, Kazuo Kobayashi, Naotake Ogasawara, Mitsuo Ogura
The H2O2 stress-responsive regulator PerR positively regulates srfA expression in Bacillus subtilis.
J Bacteriol: 2005, 187(19);6659-67
[PubMed:16166527] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

P Serror, A L Sonenshein
CodY is required for nutritional repression of Bacillus subtilis genetic competence.
J Bacteriol: 1996, 178(20);5910-5
[PubMed:8830686] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

A Luttinger, J Hahn, D Dubnau
Polynucleotide phosphorylase is necessary for competence development in Bacillus subtilis.
Mol Microbiol: 1996, 19(2);343-56
[PubMed:8825779] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

D Vollenbroich, N Mehta, P Zuber, J Vater, R M Kamp
Analysis of surfactin synthetase subunits in srfA mutants of Bacillus subtilis OKB105.
J Bacteriol: 1994, 176(2);395-400
[PubMed:8288534] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

M Roggiani, D Dubnau
ComA, a phosphorylated response regulator protein of Bacillus subtilis, binds to the promoter region of srfA.
J Bacteriol: 1993, 175(10);3182-7
[PubMed:8387999] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

J Hahn, D Dubnau
Growth stage signal transduction and the requirements for srfA induction in development of competence.
J Bacteriol: 1991, 173(22);7275-82
[PubMed:1938922] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)