FhuD

• Description: hydroxamate siderophore ABC transporter (only ferrichrome) (binding protein)
  
  

Gene name	fhuD
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	hydroxamate siderophore ABC transporter (only ferrichrome) (binding protein)
Function	siderophore uptake
MW, pI	34 kDa, 9.158
Gene length, protein length	945 bp, 315 aa
Immediate neighbours	fhuB, yvsH
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU33320

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family: bacterial solute-binding protein 8 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: cell membrane (according to Swiss-Prot), extracellular (signal peptide) PubMed

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: P37580

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: fhuD (according to DBTBS)

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation:
  • repressed unless the cells enter an iron starvation (Fur) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • Fur: transcription repression PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody: