SsuD

• Description: aliphatic sulfonate monooxygenase
  
  

Gene name	ssuD
Synonyms	ygcA, yzeC
Essential	no
Product	aliphatic sulfonate monooxygenase
Function	sulfonate reduction
Metabolic function and regulation of this protein in SubtiPathways: Cys, Met & Sulfate assimilation
MW, pI	41 kDa, 5.369
Gene length, protein length	1128 bp, 376 aa
Immediate neighbours	ssuC, ygaN
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU08860

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: An alkanesufonate (R-CH(2)-SO₃H) + FMNH₂ + O₂ = an aldehyde (R-CHO) + FMN + sulfite + H₂O (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Protein family: ssuD 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:

Database entries

• Structure:

• Swiss prot entry: P40402

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: ssuB-ssuA-ssuC-ssuD-ygaN

• Sigma factor: SigA

• Regulation: repressed in the presence of cysteine (CymR) PubMed
  • repressed in the presence of cysteine (CymR) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism: CymR: transcription repression PubMed
  • CymR: transcription repression PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Sergine Even, Pierre Burguière, Sandrine Auger, Olga Soutourina, Antoine Danchin, Isabelle Martin-Verstraete
Global control of cysteine metabolism by CymR in Bacillus subtilis.
J Bacteriol: 2006, 188(6);2184-97
[PubMed:16513748] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Kyle N Erwin, Shunji Nakano, Peter Zuber
Sulfate-dependent repression of genes that function in organosulfur metabolism in Bacillus subtilis requires Spx.
J Bacteriol: 2005, 187(12);4042-9
[PubMed:15937167] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Jan R van der Ploeg, Nicola J Cummings, Thomas Leisinger, Ian F Connerton
Bacillus subtilis genes for the utilization of sulfur from aliphatic sulfonates.
Microbiology (Reading): 1998, 144 ( Pt 9);2555-2561
[PubMed:9782504] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)