FabI

• Description: enoyl-acyl carrier protein reductase
  
  

Gene name	fabI
Synonyms	yjbW
Essential	no
Product	enoyl-acyl carrier protein reductase
Function	fatty acid biosynthesis
MW, pI	27 kDa, 5.605
Gene length, protein length	774 bp, 258 aa
Immediate neighbours	yjbV, cotO
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU11720

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: Acyl-[acyl-carrier-protein] + NAD⁺ = trans-2,3-dehydroacyl-[acyl-carrier-protein] + NADH (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Protein family: FabI subfamily (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s): FabL, 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:

Database entries

• Structure:

• Swiss prot entry: P54616

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number: 1.3.1.9

Expression and regulation

• Operon:

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation:
  • repressed unless the cells experience a lack of malonyl-CoA (FapR) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • FapR: transcription repression PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Helena B Thomaides, Ella J Davison, Lisa Burston, Hazel Johnson, David R Brown, Alison C Hunt, Jeffery Errington, Lloyd Czaplewski
Essential bacterial functions encoded by gene pairs.
J Bacteriol: 2007, 189(2);591-602
[PubMed:17114254] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

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