LutA

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  • Description: lactate catabolic enzyme

Gene name lutA
Synonyms yvfV
Essential no
Product lactate oxidase
Function lactate utilization
MW, pI 26 kDa, 6.25
Gene length, protein length 714 bp, 238 aa
Immediate neighbours lutB, yvfU
Get the DNA and protein sequences
(Barbe et al., 2009)
Genetic context
YvfV context.gif
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The gene

Basic information

  • Locus tag:

Phenotypes of a mutant

no growth with lactate as the single carbon source PubMed

Database entries

  • DBTBS entry: no entry
  • SubtiList entry: [1]

Additional information

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

  • Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: oxidation of lactate to pyruvate PubMed
  • Protein family:
  • Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

  • Kinetic information:
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Database entries

  • Structure:
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Additional information

Expression and regulation

  • Sigma factor:
  • Regulation: induction by lactate PubMed
  • Regulatory mechanism: dual repression by LutR (inducer lactate) and SinR PubMed
  • Additional information:

Biological materials

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

Labs working on this gene/protein

Richard Losick, Harvard Univ., Cambridge, USA homepage

Your additional remarks

References

Yunrong Chai, Roberto Kolter, Richard Losick
A widely conserved gene cluster required for lactate utilization in Bacillus subtilis and its involvement in biofilm formation.
J Bacteriol: 2009, 191(8);2423-30
[PubMed:19201793] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)


  1. Author1, Author2 & Author3 (year) Title Journal volume: page-page. PubMed