RibT

• Description: reductase
  
  

Gene name	ribT
Synonyms	ribD
Essential	no
Product	unknown
Function	unknown
Metabolic function and regulation of this protein in SubtiPathways: Riboflavin / FAD
MW, pI	14 kDa, 5.746
Gene length, protein length	372 bp, 124 aa
Immediate neighbours	ypuF, ribH
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU23240

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

Categories containing this gene/protein

biosynthesis of cofactors

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family:

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:

• Localization:

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: P17622

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: ypuE-ribD-ribE-ribA-ribH-ribT PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigA PubMed

• Regulation: expressed in the absence of FMN (FMN-box) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism: FMN-box: riboswitch, mediates termination/ antitermination control of the operon, in the absence of FMN: antitermination, in the presence of FMN: termination PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

J Kenneth Wickiser, Wade C Winkler, Ronald R Breaker, Donald M Crothers
The speed of RNA transcription and metabolite binding kinetics operate an FMN riboswitch.
Mol Cell: 2005, 18(1);49-60
[PubMed:15808508] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Wade C Winkler, Smadar Cohen-Chalamish, Ronald R Breaker
An mRNA structure that controls gene expression by binding FMN.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A: 2002, 99(25);15908-13
[PubMed:12456892] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

V N Mironov, A S Kraev, M L Chikindas, B K Chernov, A I Stepanov, K G Skryabin
Functional organization of the riboflavin biosynthesis operon from Bacillus subtilis SHgw.
Mol Gen Genet: 1994, 242(2);201-8
[PubMed:8159171] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

V Azevedo, A Sorokin, S D Ehrlich, P Serror
The transcriptional organization of the Bacillus subtilis 168 chromosome region between the spoVAF and serA genetic loci.
Mol Microbiol: 1993, 10(2);397-405
[PubMed:7934830] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)