YxeM

• Description: putative cysteine ABC transporter (binding protein), the yxeK-snaB-yxeM-yxeN-yxeO-sndB-yxeQ operon may be implicated in the utilization of a modified cysteine variant
  
  

Gene name	yxeM
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	putative cysteine ABC transporter (binding protein)
Function	uptake of cysteine
Gene expression levels in SubtiExpress: yxeM
Interactions involving this protein in SubtInteract: YxeM
MW, pI	29 kDa, 9.086
Gene length, protein length	792 bp, 264 aa
Immediate neighbours	yxeN, yxeL
Sequences	Protein DNA DNA_with_flanks
Genetic context This image was kindly provided by SubtiList
Expression at a glance   PubMed

Categories containing this gene/protein

ABC transporters, biosynthesis/ acquisition of amino acids, membrane proteins

This gene is a member of the following regulons

CymR regulon

The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU39500

Database entries

• BsubCyc: BSU39500

• DBTBS entry: no entry

• SubtiList entry: [1]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family: bacterial solute-binding protein 3 family (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:
  • YxeO-YxeN-YxeM PubMed

• Localization: associated to the membrane (via YxeN) PubMed

Database entries

• BsubCyc: BSU39500

• Structure:

• UniProt: P54952

• KEGG entry: [2]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: yxeK-snaB-yxeM-yxeN-yxeO-sndB-yxeQ PubMed

• Expression browser: yxeM PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigA PubMed

• Regulation:
  • repressed in the presence of cysteine (CymR) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • CymR: transcription repression PubMed

• Additional information:
  • the amount of the mRNA is substantially decreased upon depletion of RNase Y PubMed

Biological materials

• Mutant:
  • 1A950 ( yxeM::cat), PubMed, available at BGSC

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Martin Lehnik-Habrink, Marc Schaffer, Ulrike Mäder, Christine Diethmaier, Christina Herzberg, Jörg Stülke
RNA processing in Bacillus subtilis: identification of targets of the essential RNase Y.
Mol Microbiol: 2011, 81(6);1459-73
[PubMed:21815947] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Sergine Even, Pierre Burguière, Sandrine Auger, Olga Soutourina, Antoine Danchin, Isabelle Martin-Verstraete
Global control of cysteine metabolism by CymR in Bacillus subtilis.
J Bacteriol: 2006, 188(6);2184-97
[PubMed:16513748] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Sandrine Auger, Antoine Danchin, Isabelle Martin-Verstraete
Global expression profile of Bacillus subtilis grown in the presence of sulfate or methionine.
J Bacteriol: 2002, 184(18);5179-86
[PubMed:12193636] [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)

Y Quentin, G Fichant, F Denizot
Inventory, assembly and analysis of Bacillus subtilis ABC transport systems.
J Mol Biol: 1999, 287(3);467-84
[PubMed:10092453] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)