YbfG

• Description: carboxylesterase NP, 1,2-O-isopropylideneglycerol caprylate esterase
  
  

Gene name	ybfG
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	carboxylesterase NP, 1,2-O-isopropylideneglycerol caprylate esterase
Function	degradation of isoprenoid-containing lipids
MW, pI	79 kDa, 4.694
Gene length, protein length	2196 bp, 732 aa
Immediate neighbours	ybfF, ybfH
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU02200

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: no entry

• SubtiList entry: [1]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family: fadG family (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s): FadG

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

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• Interactions:

• Localization: cell membrane (according to Swiss-Prot)

Database entries

• Structure:

• Swiss prot entry: O31447

• KEGG entry: [2]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

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Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

M J Dröge, R Bos, W J Quax
Paralogous gene analysis reveals a highly enantioselective 1,2-O-isopropylideneglycerol caprylate esterase of Bacillus subtilis.
Eur J Biochem: 2001, 268(11);3332-8
[PubMed:11389736] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)