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• Description: beta-ketoacyl-acyl carrier protein synthase III
  
  

Gene name	fabHB
Synonyms	yhfB
Essential	no
Product	beta-ketoacyl-acyl carrier protein synthase III
Function	fatty acid biosynthesis
MW, pI	35 kDa, 5.684
Gene length, protein length	975 bp, 325 aa
Immediate neighbours	yhgE, yhfC
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU10170

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: Acetyl-CoA + malonyl-[acyl-carrier-protein] = acetoacyl-[acyl-carrier-protein] + CoA + CO₂ (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Protein family: fabH family (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s): FabHA, one of the two proteins has to be present for viability PubMed

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: O07600

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number: 2.3.1.180

Expression and regulation

• Operon:

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation:

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

1. Thomaides, H. B., Davison, E. J., Burston, L., Johnson, H., Brown, D. R., Hunt, A. C., Errington, J., and Czaplewski, L. (2007) Essential bacterial functions encoded by gene pairs. J Bacteriol 189, 591-602. PubMed
2. Author1, Author2 & Author3 (year) Title Journal volume: page-page. PubMed