HemZ

• Description: coproporphyrinogen III oxidase
  
  

Gene name	hemZ
Synonyms	yhaW, yhaV
Essential	no
Product	coproporphyrinogen III oxidase
Function	heme biosynthesis
MW, pI	57 kDa, 5.899
Gene length, protein length	1503 bp, 501 aa
Immediate neighbours	yhaX, yhaU
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU09840

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: Coproporphyrinogen-III + 2 S-adenosyl-L-methionine = protoporphyrinogen-IX + 2 CO₂ + 2 L-methionine + 2 5'-deoxyadenosine (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Protein family: anaerobic coproporphyrinogen III oxidase family (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s): hemN

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

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Database entries

• Structure:

• Swiss prot entry: Q796V8

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon:

• Sigma factor:

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Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

G Homuth, A Rompf, W Schumann, D Jahn
Transcriptional control of Bacillus subtilis hemN and hemZ.
J Bacteriol: 1999, 181(19);5922-9
[PubMed:10498703] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

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