SufB

• Description: synthesis of Fe-S-clusters
  
  

Gene name	sufB
Synonyms	yurU
Essential	yes PubMed
Product	unknown
Function	synthesis of iron-sulfur clusters
Gene expression levels in SubtiExpress: sufB
MW, pI	52 kDa, 4.958
Gene length, protein length	1395 bp, 465 aa
Immediate neighbours	yuzN, sufU
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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Expression at a glance   PubMed

Categories containing this gene/protein

iron metabolism, essential genes

The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU32670

Phenotypes of a mutant

essential PubMed

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: no entry

• SubtiList entry: [1]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

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Extended information on the protein

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Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: O32162

• KEGG entry: [2]

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Additional information

• subject to Clp-dependent proteolysis upon glucose starvation PubMed

Expression and regulation

• Operon:

• Expression browser: sufB PubMed

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

Biological materials

• Mutant:

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• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

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References

Alexander G Albrecht, Daili J A Netz, Marcus Miethke, Antonio J Pierik, Olaf Burghaus, Florian Peuckert, Roland Lill, Mohamed A Marahiel
SufU is an essential iron-sulfur cluster scaffold protein in Bacillus subtilis.
J Bacteriol: 2010, 192(6);1643-51
[PubMed:20097860] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Ulf Gerth, Holger Kock, Ilja Kusters, Stephan Michalik, Robert L Switzer, Michael Hecker
Clp-dependent proteolysis down-regulates central metabolic pathways in glucose-starved Bacillus subtilis.
J Bacteriol: 2008, 190(1);321-31
[PubMed:17981983] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)