HypO

• Description: NAD(P)H-flavin nitroreductase
  
  

Gene name	yfkO (hypO)
Synonyms	hypO
Essential	no
Product	NAD(P)H-flavin nitroreductase
Function	probably involved in NaOCl and diamide detoxification
MW, pI	25 kDa, 5.667
Gene length, protein length	663 bp, 221 aa
Immediate neighbours	treR, yfkN
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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Categories containing this gene/protein

electron transport/ other

This gene is a member of the following regulons

The yybR (hypR) regulon

The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU07830

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family: nitroreductase family (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

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• Interactions:

• Localization:

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: O34475

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: ykfO (hypO) (according to DBTBS)

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation: induced under disulfide stress conditions (diamide, NaOCl)

• Regulatory mechanism: induction of YfkO (HypO) positively controlled by the MarR/DUF24-family regulator YybR (HypR)

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

G A Prosser, A V Patterson, D F Ackerley
uvrB gene deletion enhances SOS chromotest sensitivity for nitroreductases that preferentially generate the 4-hydroxylamine metabolite of the anti-cancer prodrug CB1954.
J Biotechnol: 2010, 150(1);190-4
[PubMed:20727918] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Palm, Gottfried; Chi, Bui; Waack, Paul; Gronau, Katrin; Becher, Dörte; Albrecht, Dirk; Hinrichs, Winfried; Read, Randy; Antelmann, Haike Structural insights into the redox-switch mechanism of the MarR/DUF24-type regulator HypR Nucleic Acid Research 2012, in press