IolT

• Description: major transporter for inositol
  
  

Gene name	iolT
Synonyms	ydjK
Essential	no
Product	major transporter for inositol
Function	inositol uptake
MW, pI	51 kDa, 9.569
Gene length, protein length	1419 bp, 473 aa
Immediate neighbours	ydjJ, bdhA
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU06230

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: no entry

• SubtiList entry: [1]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family: View classification (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:

• Localization: cell membrane (according to Swiss-Prot)

Database entries

• Structure:

• Swiss prot entry: O34718

• KEGG entry: [2]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon:

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation:
  • repressed in the absence of inositol (IolR) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • IolR: transcription repression PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Ken-Ichi Yoshida, Yoshiyuki Yamamoto, Kaoru Omae, Mami Yamamoto, Yasutaro Fujita
Identification of two myo-inositol transporter genes of Bacillus subtilis.
J Bacteriol: 2002, 184(4);983-91
[PubMed:11807058] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)