GmuR

• Description: transcriptional repressor of the gmu operon
  
  

Gene name	gmuR
Synonyms	ydhQ
Essential	no
Product	transcriptional repressor (GntR family)
Function	regulation of glucomannan utilization
MW, pI	27 kDa, 7.436
Gene length, protein length	711 bp, 237 aa
Immediate neighbours	gmuD, gmuE
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU05850

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

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• Protein family:

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

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Database entries

• Structure:

• Swiss prot entry: O05509

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: gmuB-gmuA-gmuC-gmuD-gmuR-gmuE-gmuF-gmuG PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigA PubMed

• Regulation:
  • induced by conjac glucomannan (requires GmuG) (GmuR) PubMed
  • induced by cellobiose (GmuR) PubMed
  • subject to carbon catabolite repression (CcpA) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • GmuR: transcription repression PubMed
  • CcpA: transcription repression PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

1. Reizer et al. (1999) Novel phosphotransferase system genes revealed by genome analysis - the complete complement of PTS proteins encoded within the genome of Bacillus subtilis. Microbiology 145: 3419-3429 PubMed
2. Sadaie Y, Nakadate H, Fukui R, Yee LM, Asai K. (2008) Glucomannan utilization operon of Bacillus subtilis. FEMS Microbiol Lett. Feb;279(1): 103-9. PubMed
3. Author1, Author2 & Author3 (year) Title Journal volume: page-page. PubMed