ArgB

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  • Description: N-acetylglutamate 5-phosphotransferase

Gene name argB
Synonyms
Essential no
Product N-acetylglutamate 5-phosphotransferase
Function biosynthesis of arginine
Metabolic function and regulation of this protein in SubtiPathways:
Ammonium/ glutamate
MW, pI 27 kDa, 6.214
Gene length, protein length 774 bp, 258 aa
Immediate neighbours argJ, argD
Get the DNA and protein sequences
(Barbe et al., 2009)
Genetic context
ArgB context.gif
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The gene

Basic information

  • Locus tag: BSU11210

Phenotypes of a mutant

Database entries

  • DBTBS entry: [1]
  • SubtiList entry: [2]

Additional information

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

  • Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: ATP + N-acetyl-L-glutamate = ADP + N-acetyl-L-glutamate 5-phosphate (according to Swiss-Prot)
  • Protein family: acetylglutamate kinase family (according to Swiss-Prot)
  • Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

  • Kinetic information:
  • Domains:
  • Modification:
  • Cofactor(s):
  • Effectors of protein activity:
  • Interactions:
  • Localization: cytoplasm (according to Swiss-Prot)

Database entries

  • Structure:
  • KEGG entry: [3]

Additional information

  • subject to Clp-dependent proteolysis upon glucose starvation PubMed

Expression and regulation

  • Regulation: repressed by casamino acids PubMed, repressed by arginine (AhrC)
  • Regulatory mechanism: AhrC: transcription repression
  • Additional information: subject to Clp-dependent proteolysis upon glucose starvation PubMed

Biological materials

  • Mutant:
  • Expression vector:
  • lacZ fusion:
  • GFP fusion:
  • two-hybrid system:
  • Antibody:

Labs working on this gene/protein

Your additional remarks

References

Ulrike Mäder, Georg Homuth, Christian Scharf, Knut Büttner, Rüdiger Bode, Michael Hecker
Transcriptome and proteome analysis of Bacillus subtilis gene expression modulated by amino acid availability.
J Bacteriol: 2002, 184(15);4288-95
[PubMed:12107147] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

A Mountain, N H Mann, R N Munton, S Baumberg
Cloning of a Bacillus subtilis restriction fragment complementing auxotrophic mutants of eight Escherichia coli genes of arginine biosynthesis.
Mol Gen Genet: 1984, 197(1);82-9
[PubMed:6096675] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)