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• Description: phosphodiesterase/alkaline phosphatase
  
  

Gene name	phoD
Synonyms	ycbS
Essential	no
Product	phosphodiesterase/alkaline phosphatase
Function	aquisition of phosphate upon phosphoate starvation
MW, pI	62 kDa, 8.394
Gene length, protein length	1668 bp, 556 aa
Immediate neighbours	ycbR, tatAD
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU02620

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: A phosphate monoester + H₂O = an alcohol + phosphate (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Protein family:

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions: TatAD-PhoD

• Localization: extracellular (signal peptide) PubMed, secreted by the TatAD-TatCD complex PubMed

Database entries

• Structure:

• Swiss prot entry: P42251

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number: 3.1.3.1

Expression and regulation

• Operon:

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation:

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

Labs working on this gene/protein

Oscar Kuipers, University of Groningen, The Netherlands Homepage