AmyE

• Description: alpha-amylase
  
  

Gene name	amyE
Synonyms	amyA
Essential	no
Product	alpha-amylase)
Function	starch degradation
Metabolic function and regulation of this protein in SubtiPathways: Sugar catabolism
MW, pI	72 kDa, 5.85
Gene length, protein length	1980 bp, 660 aa
Immediate neighbours	ycgB, ldh
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU03040

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: Endohydrolysis of (1->4)-alpha-D-glucosidic linkages in oligosaccharides and polysaccharides (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Protein family: glycosyl hydrolase 13 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: secreted (according to Swiss-Prot), extracellular (signal peptide) PubMed

Database entries

• Structure: 1BAG (complex with maltopentaose)

• Swiss prot entry: P00691

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number: 3.2.1.1

Expression and regulation

• Operon: AmyE

• Sigma factor: SigA

• Regulation: repressed by glucose (CcpA)

• Regulatory mechanism: CcpA: transcription repression

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

1. Voigt et al. (2009) Cell physiology and protein secretion of Bacillus licheniformis compared to Bacillus subtilis. J Mol Microbiol Biotechnol. 16: 53-68 PubMed

1. Henkin, T. M., Grundy, F. J., Nicholson, W. L. and Chambliss, G. H. (1991) Catabolite repression of -amylase gene expression in Bacillus subtilis involves a trans-acting gene product homologous to the Escherichia coli lacI and galR repressors. Mol. Microbiol. 5, 575-584. PubMed
2. Author1, Author2 & Author3 (year) Title Journal volume: page-page. PubMed