XylA

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  • Description: xylose isomerase

Gene name xylA
Synonyms
Essential no
Product xylose isomerase
Function utilization of xylan and xylose
MW, pI 50 kDa, 5.635
Gene length, protein length 1335 bp, 445 aa
Immediate neighbours xylR, xylB
Get the DNA and protein sequences
(Barbe et al., 2009)
Genetic context
XylA context.gif
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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

  • Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:
  • Protein family:
  • Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

  • Kinetic information:
  • Domains:
  • Modification:
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  • Interactions:
  • Localization: cytoplasm (according to Swiss-Prot)

Database entries

  • Structure:
  • KEGG entry: [3]
  • E.C. number: 5.3.1.5

Additional information

Expression and regulation

  • Regulation: repressed by glucose (CcpA) , carbon catabolite repression (CcpA), induction by xylose (XylR)
  • Regulatory mechanism: CcpA: transcription repression, CcpA: transcription repression, XylR: transcription repression
  • Additional information:

Biological materials

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

Labs working on this gene/protein

Wolfgang Hillen, Erlangen University, Germany Homepage

Your additional remarks

References

  1. Dahl, M. K., J. Degenkolb, and W. Hillen. 1994. Transcription of the xyl operon is controlled in Bacillus subtilis by tandem overlapping operators spaced by four base-pairs. J. Mol. Biol. 243:413-424. PubMed
  2. Jacob S, Allmansberger R, Gärtner D, Hillen W (1991) Catabolite repression of the operon for xylose utilization from Bacillus subtilis W23 is mediated at the level of transcription and depends on a cis site in the xylA reading frame. Mol Gen Genet 229: 189-196. PubMed
  3. Kraus A, Hueck C, Gärtner D, Hillen W (1994) Catabolite repression of the Bacillus subtilis xyl operon involves a cis element functional in the context of an unrelated sequence, and glucose exerts additional xylR-dependent repression. J Bacteriol 176: 1738-1745. PubMed
  4. Gärtner D, Geißendörfer M, Hillen W. 1988. Expression of the Bacillus subtilis xyl operon is repressed at the level of transcription and is induced by xylose. J. Bacteriol. 170:3102-3109. PubMed
  5. Gärtner D, Degenkolb J, Ripperger JAE, Allmansberger R, Hillen W. 1992. Regulation of the Bacillus subtilis W23 xylose utilization operon: interaction of Xyl repressor with xyl operator and the inducer xylose. Mol. Gen. Genet. 232:415-422 PubMed
  6. Author1, Author2 & Author3 (year) Title Journal volume: page-page. PubMed