AroE

• Description: 3-phosphoshikimate 1-carboxyvinyltransferase
  
  

Gene name	aroE
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	3-phosphoshikimate 1-carboxyvinyltransferase
Function	biosynthesis of aromatic amino acids
Metabolic function and regulation of this protein in SubtiPathways: Phe, Tyr, Trp
MW, pI	45 kDa, 6.341
Gene length, protein length	1284 bp, 428 aa
Immediate neighbours	ypiA, tyrA
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU22600

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: Phosphoenolpyruvate + 3-phosphoshikimate = phosphate + 5-O-(1-carboxyvinyl)-3-phosphoshikimate (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Protein family: ABC transporter 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: 1RF5 (from Streptococcus pneumoniae, 52% identity, 69% similarity) PubMed

• UniProt: P20691

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number: 2.5.1.19

Expression and regulation

• Operon: trpE-trpD-trpC-trpF-trpB-trpA-hisC-tyrA-aroE PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigA PubMed

• Regulation:
  • induction by tryptophan ( TRAP) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • TRAP: binding to the mRNA in the presence of tryptophan, this results in transcription termination PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

D J Henner, L Band, G Flaggs, E Chen
The organization and nucleotide sequence of the Bacillus subtilis hisH, tyrA and aroE genes.
Gene: 1986, 49(1);147-52
[PubMed:3106153] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)