CitB

• Description: trigger enzyme: aconitase and RNA binding protein
  
  

Gene name	citB
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	trigger enzyme: aconitate hydratase (aconitase)
Function	TCA cycle
Gene expression levels in SubtiExpress: citB
Interactions involving this protein in SubtInteract: CitB
Metabolic function and regulation of this protein in SubtiPathways: Central C-metabolism
MW, pI	99 kDa, 4.903
Gene length, protein length	2727 bp, 909 aa
Immediate neighbours	sspO, yneN
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
Genetic context This image was kindly provided by SubtiList
Expression at a glance   PubMed

Categories containing this gene/protein

carbon core metabolism, trigger enzyme, RNA binding regulators

This gene is a member of the following regulons

CcpA regulon, CcpC regulon, CodY regulon, FsrA regulon

The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU18000

Phenotypes of a mutant

glutamate auxotrophy and a defect in sporulation PubMed

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

Additional information

• A mutation was found in this gene after evolution under relaxed selection for sporulation PubMed

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:
  • Citrate = isocitrate (according to Swiss-Prot)
  • Binding to iron responsive elements (IRE RNA) in the absence of the FeS cluster PubMed

• Protein family:

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s): FeS cluster

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:
  • Mdh-CitB PubMed
  • CitG-CitB PubMed

• Localization:

Database entries

• Structure: 1L5J (E. coli)

• UniProt: P09339

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number: 4.2.1.3

Additional information

• B. subtilis aconitase is both an enzyme and an RNA binding protein (moonlighting protein) PubMed
• extensive information on the structure and enzymatic properties of CitB can be found at Proteopedia

Expression and regulation

• Operon: citB (according to DBTBS)

• Expression browser: citB PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigA PubMed

• Regulation:
  • repressed during growth in the presence of branched chain amino acids (CodY) PubMed
  • repressed in the presence of glucose and glutamate (CcpC) PubMed
  • expressed upon transition into the stationary phase (AbrB) PubMed, indirect negative regulation by AbrB PubMed
  • repressed by glucose (3.7-fold) (CcpA) PubMed
  • repression by glucose + arginine (CcpC) PubMed
  • less expressed under conditions of extreme iron limitation (FsrA) PubMed
  • part of the iron sparing response (FsrA) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • CodY: transcription repression PubMed
  • CcpC: transcription repression (molecular inducer: citrate) PubMed1 PubMed2
  • CcpA: transcription repression PubMed
  • FsrA: translational repression PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:
  • GP683 (erm), available in Jörg Stülke's lab
  • GP1441 (spc), available in Jörg Stülke's lab
  • 1A999 ( citB::spec), PubMed, available at BGSC

• Expression vector:
  • GP1439 (citB-Strep (spc)), purification from B. subtilis, for SPINE, available in Jörg Stülke's lab
  • pGP1810 (for expression, purification in E. coli with N-terminal Strep-tag, in pGP172, available in Jörg Stülke's lab

• lacZ fusion:
  • pGP700 (in pAC5), available in Jörg Stülke's lab

• GFP fusion: GP1434 (spc, based on pGP1870), available in Jörg Stülke's lab

• two-hybrid system: B. pertussis adenylate cyclase-based bacterial two hybrid system (BACTH), available in Jörg Stülke's lab

• Antibody: available in Linc Sonenshein's lab

• FLAG-tag construct:
  • GP1144 (spc, based on pGP1331), available in Jörg Stülke's lab
  • GP1145 (kan), available in Jörg Stülke's lab

Labs working on this gene/protein

• Linc Sonenshein, Tufts University, Boston, MA, USA Homepage
• Jörg Stülke, University of Göttingen, Germany

Homepage

References

Original publications

Additional publications: PubMed

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Meghna Mittal, Kieran B Pechter, Silvia Picossi, Hyun-Jin Kim, Kathryn O Kerstein, Abraham L Sonenshein
Dual role of CcpC protein in regulation of aconitase gene expression in Listeria monocytogenes and Bacillus subtilis.
Microbiology (Reading): 2013, 159(Pt 1);68-76
[PubMed:23139400] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Gregory T Smaldone, Olga Revelles, Ahmed Gaballa, Uwe Sauer, Haike Antelmann, John D Helmann
A global investigation of the Bacillus subtilis iron-sparing response identifies major changes in metabolism.
J Bacteriol: 2012, 194(10);2594-605
[PubMed:22389480] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Christopher T Brown, Laura K Fishwick, Binna M Chokshi, Marissa A Cuff, Jay M Jackson, Travis Oglesby, Alison T Rioux, Enrique Rodriguez, Gregory S Stupp, Austin H Trupp, James S Woollcombe-Clarke, Tracy N Wright, William J Zaragoza, Jennifer C Drew, Eric W Triplett, Wayne L Nicholson
Whole-genome sequencing and phenotypic analysis of Bacillus subtilis mutants following evolution under conditions of relaxed selection for sporulation.
Appl Environ Microbiol: 2011, 77(19);6867-77
[PubMed:21821766] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Weihua Gao, Sen Dai, Quanli Liu, Haijin Xu, Yanlin Bai, Mingqiang Qiao
Effect of site-directed mutagenesis of citB on the expression and activity of Bacillus subtilis aconitase.
Mikrobiologiia: 2010, 79(6);774-8
[PubMed:21446632] [WorldCat.org] (P p)

Weihua Gao, Sen Dai, Quanli Liu, Haijin Xu, Mingqiang Qiao
CitB mutation increases the alkaline protease productivity in Bacillus subtilis.
J Gen Appl Microbiol: 2010, 56(5);403-7
[PubMed:21099137] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)