TrxA

• Description: antioxidative action by facilitating the reduction of other proteins by cysteine thiol-disulfide exchange
  
  

Gene name	trxA
Synonyms	trx
Essential	yes PubMed
Product	thioredoxin
Function	protection of proteins against oxidative damage
MW, pI	11 kDa, 4.308
Gene length, protein length	312 bp, 104 aa
Immediate neighbours	uvrC, abf2
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU28500

Phenotypes of a mutant

essential PubMed

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

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

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions: TrxA-ArsC

• Localization: cytoplasm (according to Swiss-Prot)

Database entries

• Structure: 2GZZ (oxidized form), 2GZY (reduced form), 2IPA (TrxA-ArsC-complex)

• Swiss prot entry: P14949

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon:

• Sigma factor: SigB PubMed

• Regulation: induced by stress (SigB) [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11544224 PubMed; Regulation by Spx in response to diamide stress

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Jörg Mostertz, Falko Hochgräfe, Britta Jürgen, Thomas Schweder, Michael Hecker
The role of thioredoxin TrxA in Bacillus subtilis: a proteomics and transcriptomics approach.
Proteomics: 2008, 8(13);2676-90
[PubMed:18601268] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Mirja Carlsson Möller, Lars Hederstedt
Extracytoplasmic processes impaired by inactivation of trxA (thioredoxin gene) in Bacillus subtilis.
J Bacteriol: 2008, 190(13);4660-5
[PubMed:18456801] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Wiep Klaas Smits, Jean-Yves F Dubois, Sierd Bron, Jan Maarten van Dijl, Oscar P Kuipers
Tricksy business: transcriptome analysis reveals the involvement of thioredoxin A in redox homeostasis, oxidative stress, sulfur metabolism, and cellular differentiation in Bacillus subtilis.
J Bacteriol: 2005, 187(12);3921-30
[PubMed:15937154] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

A Petersohn, M Brigulla, S Haas, J D Hoheisel, U Völker, M Hecker
Global analysis of the general stress response of Bacillus subtilis.
J Bacteriol: 2001, 183(19);5617-31
[PubMed:11544224] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

C Scharf, S Riethdorf, H Ernst, S Engelmann, U Völker, M Hecker
Thioredoxin is an essential protein induced by multiple stresses in Bacillus subtilis.
J Bacteriol: 1998, 180(7);1869-77
[PubMed:9537387] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)