RibR

• Description: cryptic riboflavin kinase, binds leader (RFN) rib operon mRNA, may have a regulatory role
  
  

Gene name	ribR
Synonyms	ytnK
Essential	no
Product	cryptic riboflavin kinase
Function	regulation of rib operon expression
MW, pI	26 kDa, 9.278
Gene length, protein length	690 bp, 230 aa
Immediate neighbours	ytnL, ytnJ
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU29300

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family:

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

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• Modification:

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Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: P94465

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: ytmI-tcyJ-tcyK-tcyL-tcyM-tcyN-ytmO-ytnI-ytnJ-ribR-ytnL-ytnM PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigA PubMed

• Regulation:
  • repressed in the presence of cysteine (CymR) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • CymR: transcription repression PubMed
  • YtlI: transcription activation PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Yuhei Higashitsuji, Annemarie Angerer, Sabine Berghaus, Birgit Hobl, Matthias Mack
RibR, a possible regulator of the Bacillus subtilis riboflavin biosynthetic operon, in vivo interacts with the 5'-untranslated leader of rib mRNA.
FEMS Microbiol Lett: 2007, 274(1);48-54
[PubMed:17590224] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Pierre Burguière, Juliette Fert, Isabelle Guillouard, Sandrine Auger, Antoine Danchin, Isabelle Martin-Verstraete
Regulation of the Bacillus subtilis ytmI operon, involved in sulfur metabolism.
J Bacteriol: 2005, 187(17);6019-30
[PubMed:16109943] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Irina M Solovieva, Rimma A Kreneva, Lubov Errais Lopes, Daniel A Perumov
The riboflavin kinase encoding gene ribR of Bacillus subtilis is a part of a 10 kb operon, which is negatively regulated by the yrzC gene product.
FEMS Microbiol Lett: 2005, 243(1);51-8
[PubMed:15668000] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

I M Solov'eva, R A Kreneva, L L Erraĭs, A S Mironov, D A Perumov
[Study of the mechanism for regulating ribR gene activity in Bacillus subtilis]. [Issledovanie mekhanizma reguliatsii aktivnosti gena ribR u Bacillus subtilis.]
Genetika: 2004, 40(5);716-20
[PubMed:15272571] [WorldCat.org] (P p)