AcuA

• Description: protein acetylase for the control of AcsA activity
  
  

Gene name	acuA
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	Gcn5-related N-acetyltransferase
Function	control of AcsA activity
MW, pI	24 kDa, 5.028
Gene length, protein length	630 bp, 210 aa
Immediate neighbours	acsA, acuB
Gene sequence (+200bp)	Protein sequence
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The gene

Basic information

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Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: acetylates (and thereby inactivates) AcsA on Lys-549 PubMed PubMed

• Protein family: Gcn5-relatedN-acetyltransferase PubMed

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

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• Swiss prot entry:

• KEGG entry: [3]

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Expression and regulation

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• Regulation: repressed by glucose (3.4-fold) (CcpA) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism: CcpA: transcription repression

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Biological materials

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References

1. Blencke et al. (2003) Transcriptional profiling of gene expression in response to glucose in Bacillus subtilis: regulation of the central metabolic pathways. Metab Eng. 5: 133-149 PubMed
2. Gardner JG, Escalante-Semerena JC (2008) Biochemical and mutational analyses of AcuA, the acetyltransferase enzyme that controls the activity of the acetyl coenzyme a synthetase (AcsA) in Bacillus subtilis. J. Bacteriol. 190: 5132-5136. PubMed
3. Gardner JG, Escalante-Semerena JC (2009) In Bacillus subtilis, the sirtuin protein deacetylase, encoded by the srtN gene (formerly yhdZ), and functions encoded by the acuABC genes control the activity of acetyl coenzyme A synthetase. J. Bacteriol. 191: 1749-1755. PubMed
4. Author1, Author2 & Author3 (year) Title Journal volume: page-page. PubMed