AraA

• Description: L-arabinose isomerase
  
  

Gene name	araA
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	L-arabinose isomerase
Function	arabinose utilization
Metabolic function and regulation of this protein in SubtiPathways: Sugar catabolism
MW, pI	56 kDa, 5.474
Gene length, protein length	1494 bp, 498 aa
Immediate neighbours	araB, abnA
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU28800

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

Categories containing this gene/protein

utilization of specific carbon sources

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: L-arabinose = L-ribulose (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Protein family: arabinose isomerase family (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information: k (cat) of 14,504 min(-1) and k (cat)/K (m) of 121 min(-1) mM(-1) for L-arabinose PubMed

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:

• Localization:

Database entries

• Structure: 2AJT (from Escherichia coli, 51% identity, 71% similarity) PubMed

• UniProt: P94523

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number: 5.3.1.4

Expression and regulation

• Operon: araA-araB-araD-araL-araM-araN-araP-araQ-abfA PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigA PubMed

• Regulation:
  • repressed by glucose (CcpA) PubMed
  • induced by arabinose (AraR) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • CcpA: transcription repression PubMed
  • AraR: transcription repression PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody: