ArgH

• Description: argininosuccinate lyase
  
  

Gene name	argH
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	argininosuccinate lyase
Function	biosynthesis of arginine
MW, pI	51 kDa, 4.859
Gene length, protein length	1383 bp, 461 aa
Immediate neighbours	ytzD, argG
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU29440

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: no entry

• SubtiList entry: [1]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: 2-(N(omega)-L-arginino)succinate = fumarate + L-arginine (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Protein family: Argininosuccinate lyase subfamily (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:

• Swiss prot entry: O34858

• KEGG entry: [2]

• E.C. number: 4.3.2.1

Expression and regulation

• Operon: argG-argH-ytzD

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation: repressed by casamino acids PubMed, repressed by arginine (AhrC)

• Regulatory mechanism: AhrC: transcription repression

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

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)