CtaB

• Description: heme O synthase (major enzyme)
  
  

Gene name	ctaB
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	heme O synthase (major enzyme)
Function	heme biosynthesis
MW, pI	33 kDa, 9.566
Gene length, protein length	915 bp, 305 aa
Immediate neighbours	ctaA, ctaC
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag:

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family: ubiA prenyltransferase family, Protoheme IX farnesyltransferase subfamily (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

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• Interactions:

• Localization: cell membrane (according to Swiss-Prot)

Database entries

• Structure:

• Swiss prot entry: P24009

• KEGG entry: BSU14880

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon:

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation:

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• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Tatsushi Mogi
Over-expression and characterization of Bacillus subtilis heme O synthase.
J Biochem: 2009, 145(5);669-75
[PubMed:19204012] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

1. Author1, Author2 & Author3 (year) Title Journal volume: page-page. PubMed