GlpF

• Description: glycerol facilitator
  
  

Gene name	glpF
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	glycerol facilitator
Function	glycerol uptake
MW, pI	28 kDa, 9.506
Gene length, protein length	822 bp, 274 aa
Immediate neighbours	glpP, glpK
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

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Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

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Extended information on the protein

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

Database entries

• Structure:

• Swiss prot entry: P18156

• KEGG entry: [3]

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Expression and regulation

• Operon: glpF-glpK

• Sigma factor: SigA

• Regulation: repressed by glucose (8-fold) (CcpA) PubMed, carbon catabolite repression, induction by glycerol

• Regulatory mechanism: CcpA: transcription repression, catabolite repression: repression by CcpA, induction: GlpP-dependent RNA switch (transcriptional antitermination)

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Biological materials

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References

1. Blencke et al. (2003) Transcriptional profiling of gene expression in response to glucose in Bacillus subtilis: regulation of the central metabolic pathways. Metab Eng. 5: 133-149 PubMed
2. Beijer L, Nilsson RP, Holmberg C, Rutberg L: The glpP and glpF genes of the glycerol regulon in Bacillus subtilis. J Gen Microbiol 1993;139:349-359. PubMed
3. Darbon E, Servant P, Poncet S, Deutscher J (2002) Antitermination by GlpP, catabolite repression via CcpA and inducer exclusion triggered by P~GlpK dephosphorylation control Bacillus subtilis glpFK expression. Mol Microbiol 43:1039-1052. PubMed