MtnA

• Description: 5-methylthioribose-1-phosphate isomerase
  
  

Gene name	mtnA
Synonyms	ykrS, mtnS
Essential	no
Product	5-methylthioribose-1-phosphate isomerase
Function	methionine salvage
Metabolic function and regulation of this protein in SubtiPathways: Cys, Met & Sulfate assimilation
MW, pI	38 kDa, 5.003
Gene length, protein length	1059 bp, 353 aa
Immediate neighbours	ogt, mtnK
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU13550

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

Categories containing this gene/protein

biosynthesis/ acquisition of amino acids

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: S-methyl-5-thio-alpha-D-ribose 1-phosphate = S-methyl-5-thio-D-ribulose 1-phosphate (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Protein family: MtnA 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: 2YVK

• UniProt: O31662

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number: 5.3.1.23

Additional information

• subject to Clp-dependent proteolysis upon glucose starvation PubMed

Expression and regulation

• Operon: mtnK-mtnA PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigA PubMed

• Regulation:
  • induced by methionine starvation (S-box) PubMed
  • repressed by casamino acids PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism: S-box: transcription termination/ antitermination, the S-box riboswitch binds S-adenosylmethionine resulting in termination PubMed

• Additional information: subject to Clp-dependent proteolysis upon glucose starvation PubMed

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Jerneja Tomsic, Brooke A McDaniel, Frank J Grundy, Tina M Henkin
Natural variability in S-adenosylmethionine (SAM)-dependent riboswitches: S-box elements in bacillus subtilis exhibit differential sensitivity to SAM In vivo and in vitro.
J Bacteriol: 2008, 190(3);823-33
[PubMed:18039762] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Agnieszka Sekowska, Valérie Dénervaud, Hiroki Ashida, Karine Michoud, Dieter Haas, Akiho Yokota, Antoine Danchin
Bacterial variations on the methionine salvage pathway.
BMC Microbiol: 2004, 4;9
[PubMed:15102328] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I e)

Maumita Mandal, Benjamin Boese, Jeffrey E Barrick, Wade C Winkler, Ronald R Breaker
Riboswitches control fundamental biochemical pathways in Bacillus subtilis and other bacteria.
Cell: 2003, 113(5);577-86
[PubMed:12787499] [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)

Brooke A Murphy, Frank J Grundy, Tina M Henkin
Prediction of gene function in methylthioadenosine recycling from regulatory signals.
J Bacteriol: 2002, 184(8);2314-8
[PubMed:11914366] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

A Sekowska, L Mulard, S Krogh, J K Tse, A Danchin
MtnK, methylthioribose kinase, is a starvation-induced protein in Bacillus subtilis.
BMC Microbiol: 2001, 1;15
[PubMed:11545674] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)