FeuA

• Description: ABC-transporter for the siderophores enterobactin and bacillibactin (binding protein), with YusV as ATPase
  
  

Gene name	feuA
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	ABC-transporter for the siderophores enterobactin and bacillibactin (binding protein)
Function	iron acquisition
Metabolic function and regulation of this protein in SubtiPathways: Stress
MW, pI	34 kDa, 8.018
Gene length, protein length	951 bp, 317 aa
Immediate neighbours	feuB, btr
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU01630

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family: Fe/B12 periplasmic-binding domain (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:

• Localization: cell membrane (according to Swiss-Prot), extracellular (signal peptide) PubMed, membrane PubMed

Database entries

• Structure: 2PHZ

• Swiss prot entry: P40409

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon:

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation:
  • repressed unless the cells enter an iron starvation (Fur) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • Fur: transcription repression PubMed

• 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
2. Hahne et al. (2008) From complementarity to comprehensiveness - targeting the membrane proteome of growing Bacillus subtilis by divergent approaches. Proteomics 8: 4123-4136 PubMed
3. Author1, Author2 & Author3 (year) Title Journal volume: page-page. PubMed