FadR

• Description: transcriptional repressor, regulation of fatty acid degradation
  
  

Gene name	fadR
Synonyms	ysiA
Essential	no
Product	transcriptional repressor
Function	regulation of fatty acid degradation
Metabolic function and regulation of this protein in SubtiPathways: Fatty acid degradation
MW, pI	21 kDa, 6.118
Gene length, protein length	582 bp, 194 aa
Immediate neighbours	fadB, lcfA
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU28550

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family:

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:

• Localization:

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: P94548

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon:
  • lcfA-fadR-fadB-etfB-etfA PubMed
  • fadR-fadB-etfB-etfA PubMed

• Sigma factor:
  • fadR: SigA PubMed

• Regulation:
  • induced by long-chain fatty acids (FadR) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • FadR: transcription repression PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Yasutaro Fujita, Hiroshi Matsuoka, Kazutake Hirooka
Regulation of fatty acid metabolism in bacteria.
Mol Microbiol: 2007, 66(4);829-39
[PubMed:17919287] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Hiroshi Matsuoka, Kazutake Hirooka, Yasutaro Fujita
Organization and function of the YsiA regulon of Bacillus subtilis involved in fatty acid degradation.
J Biol Chem: 2007, 282(8);5180-94
[PubMed:17189250] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)