HisB

• Description: imidazoleglycerol-phosphate dehydratase
  
  

Gene name	hisB
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	imidazoleglycerol-phosphate dehydratase
Function	biosynthesis of histidine
MW, pI	21 kDa, 5.598
Gene length, protein length	582 bp, 194 aa
Immediate neighbours	hisH, hisD
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Coordinates:

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: no entry

• SubtiList entry: [1]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: D-erythro-1-(imidazol-4-yl)glycerol 3-phosphate = 3-(imidazol-4-yl)-2-oxopropyl phosphate + H₂O (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Protein family: imidazoleglycerol-phosphate dehydratase 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: cytoplasm (according to Swiss-Prot)

Database entries

• Structure:

• Swiss prot entry: O34683

• KEGG entry: BSU34900

• E.C. number: 4.2.1.19

Expression and regulation

• Operon:

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation: repressed by casamino acids PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

1. Mäder et al. (2002) Transcriptome and Proteome Analysis of Bacillus subtilis Gene Expression Modulated by Amino Acid Availability. J. Bacteriol 184: 1844288-4295 PubMed
2. Author1, Author2 & Author3 (year) Title Journal volume: page-page. PubMed