ThrC

• Description: threonine synthase
  
  

Gene name	thrC
Synonyms	thrB
Essential	no
Product	threonine synthase
Function	biosynthesis of threonine
Gene expression levels in SubtiExpress: thrC
Metabolic function and regulation of this protein in SubtiPathways: Lys, Thr
MW, pI	37 kDa, 5.185
Gene length, protein length	1056 bp, 352 aa
Immediate neighbours	thrB, hom
Sequences	Protein DNA Advanced_DNA
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Expression at a glance   PubMed

Categories containing this gene/protein

biosynthesis/ acquisition of amino acids

The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU32250

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: no entry

• SubtiList entry: [1]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: O-phospho-L-homoserine + H₂O = L-threonine + phosphate (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Protein family: serine/threonine dehydratase 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: 1UIN (from Thermus thermophilus, 51% identity, 69% similarity) PubMed

• UniProt: P04990

• KEGG entry: [2]

• E.C. number: 4.2.3.1

Expression and regulation

• Operon: hom-thrC-thrB PubMed

• Expression browser: thrC PubMed

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation:
  • repressed by casamino acids PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:
  • 1A773 ( thrC::cat), PubMed, available at BGSC

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Ulrike Mäder, Georg Homuth, Christian Scharf, Knut Büttner, Rüdiger Bode, Michael Hecker
Transcriptome and proteome analysis of Bacillus subtilis gene expression modulated by amino acid availability.
J Bacteriol: 2002, 184(15);4288-95
[PubMed:12107147] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

C Parsot
Evolution of biosynthetic pathways: a common ancestor for threonine synthase, threonine dehydratase and D-serine dehydratase.
EMBO J: 1986, 5(11);3013-9
[PubMed:3098560] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)