MetE

• Description: methionine synthase
  
  

Gene name	metE
Synonyms	metC
Essential	no
Product	methionine synthase
Function	biosynthesis of methionine
Metabolic function and regulation of this protein in SubtiPathways: Cys, Met & Sulfate assimilation
MW, pI	86 kDa, 4.839
Gene length, protein length	2286 bp, 762 aa
Immediate neighbours	guaD, ispA
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU13180

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: no entry

• SubtiList entry: [1]

Categories containing this gene/protein

biosynthesis/ acquisition of amino acids, phosphoproteins

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: 5-methyltetrahydropteroyltri-L-glutamate + L-homocysteine = tetrahydropteroyltri-L-glutamate + L-methionine (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Protein family: vitamin-B12 independent methionine synthase family (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification: phosphorylated on ser/ thr/ tyr PubMed, S-cysteinylation after diamide stress (C719) PubMed

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:

• Localization:

Database entries

• Structure: 1T7L (from Thermotoga maritima, 44% identity, 61% similarity) PubMed

• UniProt: P80877

• KEGG entry: [2]

• E.C. number: 2.1.1.14

Additional information

• subject to Clp-dependent proteolysis upon glucose starvation PubMed

Expression and regulation

• Operon: metE

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation:
  • repressed by casamino acids PubMed
  • repressed by methionine (about 1000-fold)(S-box) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism: S-box: transcription termination/ antitermination, the S-box riboswitch binds S-adenosylmethionine resulting in termination PubMed

• Additional information: subject to Clp-dependent proteolysis upon glucose starvation PubMed

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody: