Fbp

• Description: fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase, involved in gluconeogenesis
  
  

Gene name	fbp
Synonyms	fdp, yydE
Essential	no
Product	fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase
Function	gluconeogenesis
Metabolic function and regulation of this protein in SubtiPathways: Central C-metabolism, Sugar catabolism
MW, pI	77 kDa, 5.601
Gene length, protein length	2013 bp, 671 aa
Immediate neighbours	yydF, yydD
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU40190

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

Categories containing this gene/protein

carbon core metabolism

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: D-fructose 1,6-bisphosphate + H₂O = D-fructose 6-phosphate + phosphate (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Protein family: FBPase class 3 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:

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: Q45597

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number: 3.1.3.11

Expression and regulation

• Operon: fpb PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigA PubMed

• Regulation:

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Y Fujita, K Yoshida, Y Miwa, N Yanai, E Nagakawa, Y Kasahara
Identification and expression of the Bacillus subtilis fructose-1, 6-bisphosphatase gene (fbp).
J Bacteriol: 1998, 180(16);4309-13
[PubMed:9696785] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Y Fujita, E Freese
Isolation and properties of a Bacillus subtilis mutant unable to produce fructose-bisphosphatase.
J Bacteriol: 1981, 145(2);760-7
[PubMed:6257649] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Y Fujita, E Freese
Purification and properties of fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase of Bacillus subtilis.
J Biol Chem: 1979, 254(12);5340-9
[PubMed:221467] [WorldCat.org] (P p)