LysC

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  • Description: aspartokinase II (alpha and beta subunits)

Gene name lysC
Synonyms ask, aecA
Essential no
Product aspartokinase II (alpha and beta subunits)
Function biosynthesis of lysine
Metabolic function and regulation of this protein in SubtiPathways:
Lys, Thr
MW, pI 43 kDa, 4.643
Gene length, protein length 1224 bp, 408 aa
Immediate neighbours yslB, ask
Get the DNA and protein sequences
(Barbe et al., 2009)
Genetic context
LysC context.gif
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Categories containing this gene/protein

biosynthesis/ acquisition of amino acids

This gene is a member of the following regulons

L-box

The gene

Basic information

  • Locus tag: BSU28470

Phenotypes of a mutant

Database entries

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

Additional information

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

  • Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: ATP + L-aspartate = ADP + 4-phospho-L-aspartate (according to Swiss-Prot)
  • Protein family: aspartokinase family (according to Swiss-Prot)
  • Paralogous protein(s): DapG

Extended information on the protein

  • Kinetic information:
  • Domains:
  • Modification:
  • Cofactor(s):
  • Effectors of protein activity:
  • Interactions:
  • Localization:

Database entries

  • Structure: 2RE1 (from Neisseria meningitidis mc58, 40% identity, 58% similarity)
  • KEGG entry: [3]

Additional information

  • subject to Clp-dependent proteolysis upon glucose starvation PubMed, also degraded upon ammonium or amino acid starvation PubMed

Expression and regulation

  • Regulation:
    • repressed in the presence of lysine (L-box) PubMed
    • expression activated by glucose (5.4 fold) PubMed
    • repressed by casamino acids PubMed
  • Regulatory mechanism:
    • L-box: a riboswich that mediates transcription terimnation antitermination control PubMed
  • Additional information: subject to Clp-dependent proteolysis upon glucose starvation PubMed, also degraded upon ammonium or amino acid starvation PubMed

Biological materials

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

Labs working on this gene/protein

Your additional remarks

References

Reviews

Chien-Chi Lo, Carol A Bonner, Gary Xie, Mark D'Souza, Roy A Jensen
Cohesion group approach for evolutionary analysis of aspartokinase, an enzyme that feeds a branched network of many biochemical pathways.
Microbiol Mol Biol Rev: 2009, 73(4);594-651
[PubMed:19946135] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Orginal Publications

Trang Thi Phuong Phan, Wolfgang Schumann
Transcriptional analysis of the lysine-responsive and riboswitch-regulated lysC gene of Bacillus subtilis.
Curr Microbiol: 2009, 59(4);463-8
[PubMed:19636616] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Ulf Gerth, Holger Kock, Ilja Kusters, Stephan Michalik, Robert L Switzer, Michael Hecker
Clp-dependent proteolysis down-regulates central metabolic pathways in glucose-starved Bacillus subtilis.
J Bacteriol: 2008, 190(1);321-31
[PubMed:17981983] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Narasimhan Sudarsan, J Kenneth Wickiser, Shingo Nakamura, Margaret S Ebert, Ronald R Breaker
An mRNA structure in bacteria that controls gene expression by binding lysine.
Genes Dev: 2003, 17(21);2688-97
[PubMed:14597663] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Frank J Grundy, Susan C Lehman, Tina M Henkin
The L box regulon: lysine sensing by leader RNAs of bacterial lysine biosynthesis genes.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A: 2003, 100(21);12057-62
[PubMed:14523230] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Hans-Matti Blencke, Georg Homuth, Holger Ludwig, Ulrike Mäder, Michael Hecker, Jörg Stülke
Transcriptional profiling of gene expression in response to glucose in Bacillus subtilis: regulation of the central metabolic pathways.
Metab Eng: 2003, 5(2);133-49
[PubMed:12850135] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P 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)

Y Lu, T N Shevtchenko, H Paulus
Fine-structure mapping of cis-acting control sites in the lysC operon of Bacillus subtilis.
FEMS Microbiol Lett: 1992, 71(1);23-7
[PubMed:1624109] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

L M Graves, R L Switzer
Aspartokinase II from Bacillus subtilis is degraded in response to nutrient limitation.
J Biol Chem: 1990, 265(25);14947-55
[PubMed:2168395] [WorldCat.org] (P p)

N Y Chen, J J Zhang, H Paulus
Chromosomal location of the Bacillus subtilis aspartokinase II gene and nucleotide sequence of the adjacent genes homologous to uvrC and trx of Escherichia coli.
J Gen Microbiol: 1989, 135(11);2931-40
[PubMed:2559145] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

M Petricek, L Rutberg, L Hederstedt
The structural gene for aspartokinase II in Bacillus subtilis is closely linked to the sdh operon.
FEMS Microbiol Lett: 1989, 52(1-2);85-7
[PubMed:2557260] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)