YtbE

• Description: arabinose reductase
  
  

Gene name	ytbE
Synonyms
Essential	yes PubMed
Product	arabinose reductase
Function	utilization of arabitol
MW, pI	31 kDa, 4.786
Gene length, protein length	840 bp, 280 aa
Immediate neighbours	ytbD, ytaG
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU29050

Phenotypes of a mutant

essential PubMed

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: no entry

• SubtiList entry: [1]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family: aldo/keto reductase family (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s): YvgN

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:

• Localization: cell membrane (according to Swiss-Prot)

Database entries

• Structure: 3A3D

• Swiss prot entry: O34678

• KEGG entry: [2]

• E.C. number:

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

Jian Lei, Yan-Feng Zhou, Lan-Fen Li, Xiao-Dong Su
Structural and biochemical analyses of YvgN and YtbE from Bacillus subtilis.
Protein Sci: 2009, 18(8);1792-800
[PubMed:19585557] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

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)