MalA

• Description: 6-phospho-alpha-glucosidase
  
  

Gene name	malA
Synonyms	glvG, glvA
Essential	no
Product	6-phospho-alpha-glucosidase
Function	maltose utilization
MW, pI	50 kDa, 4.74
Gene length, protein length	1347 bp, 449 aa
Immediate neighbours	yfjA, glvR
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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• Protein family:

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

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• Localization: membrane associated PubMed

Database entries

• Structure: 1U8X

• Swiss prot entry: P54716

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: malA-glvR-malP

• Sigma factor: SigA

• Regulation: repressed by glucose (CcpA)

• Regulatory mechanism: CcpA: transcription repression

• Additional information:

Biological materials

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• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

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References

1. Reizer et al. (1999) Novel phosphotransferase system genes revealed by genome analysis - the complete complement of PTS proteins encoded within the genome of Bacillus subtilis. Microbiology 145: 3419-3429 PubMed

1. Hahne et al. (2008) From complementarity to comprehensiveness - targeting the membrane proteome of growing Bacillus subtilis by divergent approaches. Proteomics 8: 4123-4136 PubMed
2. Thompson J, Pikis A, Ruvinov SB, Henrissat B, Yamamoto H, Sekiguchi J. 1998. The gene glvA of Bacillus subtilis 168 encodes a metal-requiring, NAD(H)-dependent 6-phospho-α-glucosidase. J. Biol. Chem. 273:27347-27356. PubMed
3. Author1, Author2 & Author3 (year) Title Journal volume: page-page. PubMed