PycA

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  • Description: pyruvate carboxylase

Gene name pycA
Synonyms ylaP
Essential no
Product pyruvate carboxylase
Function replenishment of the oxaloacetate pool
MW, pI 127 kDa, 5.407
Gene length, protein length 3444 bp, 1148 aa
Immediate neighbours ftsW, ctaA
Get the DNA and protein sequences
(Barbe et al., 2009)
Genetic context
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The gene

Basic information

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Phenotypes of a mutant

Database entries

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

Additional information

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

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  • Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

  • Kinetic information:
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  • Localization: membrane associated PubMed

Database entries

  • Structure: 3BG5 (S. aureus)
  • Swiss prot entry:
  • E.C. number: 6.4.1.1

Additional information

PycA binds to StrepTactin, and may be co-purified when purifying Strep-tagged proteins by SPINE.

PycA is subject to Clp-dependent proteolysis upon glucose starvation PubMed

Expression and regulation

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

Biological materials

  • Mutant:
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  • lacZ fusion:
  • GFP fusion:
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Labs working on this gene/protein

Your additional remarks

References

  1. Hahne et al. (2008) From complementarity to comprehensiveness - targeting the membrane proteome of growing Bacillus subtilis by divergent approaches. Proteomics 8: 4123-4136 PubMed
  2. Gerth et al. (2008) Clp-dependent proteolysis down-regulates central metabolic pathways in glucose-starved Bacillus subtilis. J Bacteriol 190:321-331 PubMed
  3. Author1, Author2 & Author3 (year) Title Journal volume: page-page. PubMed