Eno

• Description: enolase, glycolytic/ gluconeogenic enzyme
  
  

Gene name	eno
Synonyms
Essential	yes
Product	enolase
Function	enzyme in glycolysis/ gluconeogenesis
Metabolic function and regulation of this protein in SubtiPathways: Central C-metabolism
MW, pI	46,4 kDa, 4.49
Gene length, protein length	1290 bp, 430 amino acids
Immediate neighbours	pgm, yvgK
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU33900

Phenotypes of a mutant

• Essential PubMed

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: 2-phospho-D-glycerate = phosphoenolpyruvate + H₂O (according to Swiss-Prot) 2-phospho-D-glycerate = phosphoenolpyruvate + H(2)O

• Protein family: enolase family (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information: Reversible Michaelis-Menten PubMed

• Domains:
  • substrate binding domain (366–369)

• Modification: phosphorylation on Thr-141 AND Ser-259 AND Tyr-281 AND Ser-325 PubMed, PubMed, PubMed

• Cofactor(s): Mg2+

• Effectors of protein activity:
  • Inhibited by EDTA PubMed

• Interactions: Eno-PfkA, Eno-Rny PubMed

• Localization: cytoplasm (according to Swiss-Prot), cytoplasm PubMed and membrane associated PubMed

Database entries

• Structure: 3ES8 (from Oceanobacillus iheyensis, complex with Mg(2+) and malate)

• Swiss prot entry: P37869

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number: 4.2.1.11

Additional information

There are indications that this enzyme is an octamer PubMed

Expression and regulation

• Operon:
  • cggR-gapA-pgk-tpiA-pgm-eno
  • pgk-tpiA-pgm-eno

• Sigma factor: SigA

• Regulation: expression activated by glucose (3.3 fold) PubMed
  • cggR: neg. regulated by CggR PubMed, induced by sugar
  • pgk: constitutive PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism: transcription repression by CggR PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant: GP698 (cat), available in Stülke lab

• Expression vector:
  • pGP563 (N-terminal His-tag, in pWH844), available in Stülke lab
  • pGP93 (N-terminal Strep-tag, purification from B. subtilis, for SPINE, in pGP380), available in Stülke lab
  • pGP1500 (expression in B. subtilis, in pBQ200), available in Stülke lab

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion: pHT315-yfp-eno, available in Mijakovic lab

• two-hybrid system: B. pertussis adenylate cyclase-based bacterial two hybrid system (BACTH), available in Stülke lab

• Antibody: available in Stülke lab

Labs working on this gene/protein

Jörg Stülke, University of Göttingen, Germany Homepage