ThiU

• Description: thiamine ABC transporter (binding protein)
  
  

Gene name	thiU
Synonyms	ykoF
Essential	no
Product	thiamine ABC transporter (binding protein)
Function	thiamine uptake
Metabolic function and regulation of this protein in SubtiPathways: Thiamin
MW, pI	21 kDa, 6.046
Gene length, protein length	600 bp, 200 aa
Immediate neighbours	thiV, ykoG
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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Categories containing this gene/protein

ABC transporters, biosynthesis of cofactors, membrane proteins

This gene is a member of the following regulons

Thi-box

The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU13240

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: no entry

• SubtiList entry: [1]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family:

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions: ThiW-(ThiV-ThiX)-ThiU PubMed

• Localization: membrane associated (via ThiV-ThiX) PubMed

Database entries

• Structure: 1SBR (complex with thiamine), 1S99

• UniProt: O34911

• KEGG entry: [2]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: thiU-thiV-thiW-thiX PubMed

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation:
  • repressed by thiamine (Thi-box) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • Thi-box: RNA switch PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Ghislain Schyns, Sébastien Potot, Yi Geng, Teresa M Barbosa, Adriano Henriques, John B Perkins
Isolation and characterization of new thiamine-deregulated mutants of Bacillus subtilis.
J Bacteriol: 2005, 187(23);8127-36
[PubMed:16291685] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Yancho Devedjiev, Yogesh Surendranath, Urszula Derewenda, Alexandra Gabrys, David R Cooper, Rong-guang Zhang, Lour Lezondra, Andrzej Joachimiak, Zygmunt S Derewenda
The structure and ligand binding properties of the B. subtilis YkoF gene product, a member of a novel family of thiamin/HMP-binding proteins.
J Mol Biol: 2004, 343(2);395-406
[PubMed:15451668] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Dmitry A Rodionov, Alexey G Vitreschak, Andrey A Mironov, Mikhail S Gelfand
Comparative genomics of thiamin biosynthesis in procaryotes. New genes and regulatory mechanisms.
J Biol Chem: 2002, 277(50);48949-59
[PubMed:12376536] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)