YxbA

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  • Description: putative D-aspartate ligase

Gene name yxbA
Synonyms yxaO, aslA
Essential no
Product putative D-aspartate ligase
Function unknown
Gene expression levels in SubtiExpress: yxbA
Metabolic function and regulation of this protein in SubtiPathways:
Asp, Asn
MW, pI 10 kDa, 4.433
Gene length, protein length 267 bp, 89 aa
Immediate neighbours yxbB, yxnB
Sequences Protein DNA DNA_with_flanks
Genetic context
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Expression at a glance   PubMed
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Categories containing this gene/protein

poorly characterized/ putative enzymes, sporulation proteins

This gene is a member of the following regulons

AbrB regulon, CodY regulon

The gene

Basic information

  • Locus tag: BSU39900

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:
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Database entries

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

Additional information

Expression and regulation

  • Regulation:
    • repressed by glucose (8-fold) PubMed
    • repressed during growth in the presence of branched chain amino acids (CodY) PubMed
    • repressed during logrithmic growth (AbrB) PubMed
  • Additional information:
    • the tricistronic yxbB-yxbA-yxnB transcript is extremely stable, and stability is mediated by a 5'-proximal long sequence triplication preceding the yxbB open reading frame PubMed

Biological materials

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

Your additional remarks

References

Tetsuro Morinaga, Kazuo Kobayashi, Hitoshi Ashida, Yasutaro Fujita, Ken-Ichi Yoshida
Transcriptional regulation of the Bacillus subtilis asnH operon and role of the 5'-proximal long sequence triplication in RNA stabilization.
Microbiology (Reading): 2010, 156(Pt 6);1632-1641
[PubMed:20185509] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Mélanie A Hamon, Nicola R Stanley, Robert A Britton, Alan D Grossman, Beth A Lazazzera
Identification of AbrB-regulated genes involved in biofilm formation by Bacillus subtilis.
Mol Microbiol: 2004, 52(3);847-60
[PubMed:15101989] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Virginie Molle, Yoshiko Nakaura, Robert P Shivers, Hirotake Yamaguchi, Richard Losick, Yasutaro Fujita, Abraham L Sonenshein
Additional targets of the Bacillus subtilis global regulator CodY identified by chromatin immunoprecipitation and genome-wide transcript analysis.
J Bacteriol: 2003, 185(6);1911-22
[PubMed:12618455] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Ken-Ichi Yoshida, Izumi Ishio, Eishi Nagakawa, Yoshiyuki Yamamoto, Mami Yamamoto, Yasutaro Fujita
Systematic study of gene expression and transcription organization in the gntZ-ywaA region of the Bacillus subtilis genome.
Microbiology (Reading): 2000, 146 ( Pt 3);573-579
[PubMed:10746760] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

K Yoshida, Y Fujita, S D Ehrlich
Three asparagine synthetase genes of Bacillus subtilis.
J Bacteriol: 1999, 181(19);6081-91
[PubMed:10498721] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)