RocB

• Description: involved in arginine and ornithine utilization
  
  

Gene name	rocB
Synonyms	ipa-77d
Essential	no
Product	unknown
Function	arginine, ornithine and citrulline utilization
MW, pI	64 kDa, 5.347
Gene length, protein length	1698 bp, 566 aa
Immediate neighbours	rocC, rocA
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

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Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family:

• Paralogous protein(s): YqjN

Extended information on the protein

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Database entries

• Structure:

• Swiss prot entry:

• KEGG entry: [3]

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Expression and regulation

• Operon: rocA-rocB-rocC PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigL PubMed

• Regulation: induction by arginine (RocR) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism: RocR: transcription activation PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

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• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

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References

1. Calogero S, Gardan R, Glaser P, Schweizer J, Rapoport G, Debarbouille M. (1994) RocR, a novel regulatory protein controlling arginine utilization in Bacillus subtilis, belongs to the NtrC/NifA family of transcriptional activators. J. Bacteriol. volume: page-page. PubMed
2. Author1, Author2 & Author3 (year) Title # Author1, Author2 & Author3 (year) Title Journal 176: 1234-1241. PubMed