UxaC

• Description: glucuronate isomerase (D-glucuronate, D-galacturonate)
  
  

Gene name	uxaC
Synonyms	yjmA
Essential	no
Product	glucuronate isomerase (D-glucuronate, D-galacturonate)
Function	hexuronate utilization
MW, pI	54 kDa, 5.174
Gene length, protein length	1419 bp, 473 aa
Immediate neighbours	ndh, yjmB
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU12300

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: D-glucuronate = D-fructuronate (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Protein family: uronate isomerase family (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:

• Swiss prot entry: O34808

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number: 5.3.1.12

Expression and regulation

• Operon: uxaC-yjmB-yjmC-yjmD-uxuA-yjmF-exuT-exuR-uxaB-uxaA PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigA PubMed

• Regulation:
  • repressed by glucose (CcpA) PubMed1 PubMed2
  • induced by galacturonate (ExuR) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • CcpA: transcription repression PubMed1 PubMed2
  • ExuR: reanscription repression in the absence of inducer PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Y Miwa, A Nakata, A Ogiwara, M Yamamoto, Y Fujita
Evaluation and characterization of catabolite-responsive elements (cre) of Bacillus subtilis.
Nucleic Acids Res: 2000, 28(5);1206-10
[PubMed:10666464] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

K R Mekjian, E M Bryan, B W Beall, C P Moran
Regulation of hexuronate utilization in Bacillus subtilis.
J Bacteriol: 1999, 181(2);426-33
[PubMed:9882655] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Carlo Rivolta, Blazenka Soldo, Vladimir Lazarevic, Bernard Joris, Catherine Mauël, Dimitri Karamat
A 35.7 kb DNA fragment from the Bacillus subtilis chromosome containing a putative 12.3 kb operon involved in hexuronate catabolism and a perfectly symmetrical hypothetical catabolite-responsive element.
Microbiology (Reading): 1998, 144 ( Pt 4);877-884
[PubMed:9579062] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)