AmyX

• Description: pullulanase (debranching enzyme)
  
  

Gene name	amyX
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	pullulanase
Function	starch degradation
MW, pI	80 kDa, 5.799
Gene length, protein length	2154 bp, 718 aa
Immediate neighbours	ytmP, ytlR
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU29930

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

Categories containing this gene/protein

utilization of specific carbon sources

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family:

• Paralogous protein(s): GlgB

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:

• Localization:

Database entries

• Structure: 2E8Z (complex with alpha cyclodextrin), 2E9B (complex with maltose)

• UniProt: C0SPA0

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: amyX PubMed

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation:

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Jae-Hoon Shim, Jong-Tae Park, Jung-Sun Hong, Ki Woo Kim, Myo-Jeong Kim, Jung-Hyuk Auh, Young-Wan Kim, Cheon-Seok Park, Winfried Boos, Jung-Wan Kim, Kwan-Hwa Park
Role of maltogenic amylase and pullulanase in maltodextrin and glycogen metabolism of Bacillus subtilis 168.
J Bacteriol: 2009, 191(15);4835-44
[PubMed:19465663] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Dominggus Malle, Takafumi Itoh, Wataru Hashimoto, Kousaku Murata, Shigeru Utsumi, Bunzo Mikami
Overexpression, purification and preliminary X-ray analysis of pullulanase from Bacillus subtilis strain 168.
Acta Crystallogr Sect F Struct Biol Cryst Commun: 2006, 62(Pt 4);381-4
[PubMed:16582490] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Alia Lapidus, Nathalie Galleron, Alexei Sorokin, S Dusko Ehrlich
Sequencing and functional annotation of the Bacillus subtilis genes in the 200 kb rrnB-dnaB region.
Microbiology (Reading): 1997, 143 ( Pt 11);3431-3441
[PubMed:9387221] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)