GcvPA

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  • Description: glycine decarboxylase (subunit 1)

Gene name gcvPA
Synonyms yqhJ, gcvP
Essential no
Product glycine decarboxylase (subunit 1)
Function glycine utilization
MW, pI 49 kDa, 6.947
Gene length, protein length 1344 bp, 448 aa
Immediate neighbours gcvPB, gcvT
Get the DNA and protein sequences
(Barbe et al., 2009)
Genetic context
GcvPA context.gif
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The gene

Basic information

  • Locus tag: BSU24560

Phenotypes of a mutant

Database entries

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

Additional information

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

  • Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: Glycine + H-protein-lipoyllysine = H-protein-S-aminomethyldihydrolipoyllysine + CO2 (according to Swiss-Prot)
  • Protein family: N-terminal subunit 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:

Database entries

  • Structure:
  • KEGG entry: [3]

Additional information

Expression and regulation

  • Regulation: repressed by casamino acids PubMed , induced by glycine PubMed
  • Regulatory mechanism: induction requires a co-operatively acting riboswitch PubMed
  • Additional information:

Biological materials

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

Labs working on this gene/protein

Your additional remarks

References

Maumita Mandal, Mark Lee, Jeffrey E Barrick, Zasha Weinberg, Gail Mitchell Emilsson, Walter L Ruzzo, Ronald R Breaker
A glycine-dependent riboswitch that uses cooperative binding to control gene expression.
Science: 2004, 306(5694);275-9
[PubMed:15472076] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

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)