LicT

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Gene name	licT
Synonyms
Essential
Product	transcriptional antiterminator (BglG family)
Function	required for substrate-dependent induction and catabolite repression of bglPH
MW, pI	32 kDa, 5.944
Gene length, protein length	831 bp, 277 aa
Immediate neighbours
Gene sequence (+200bp)	Protein sequence
Genetic context

The gene

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Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

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Expression and regulation

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Biological materials

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• lacZ fusion:

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Labs working on this gene/protein

Josef Deutscher, Paris-Grignon, France

Michael Hecker, Greifswald, Germany Homepage

References

1. Schnetz, K., Stülke, J., Gertz, S., Krüger, S., Krieg, M., Hecker, M. & Rak, B. (1996) LicT, a Bacillus subtilis transcriptional antiterminator protein of the BglG family. J. Bacteriol. 178: 1971-1979. PubMed
2. Lindner, C., Galinier, A., Hecker, M. & Deutscher, J. (1999) Regulation of the activity of the Bacillus subtilis antiterminator LicT by multiple PEP-dependent, enzyme I- and HPr-catalysed phosphorylation. Mol. Microbiol. 31, 995-1006 . PubMed
3. Lindner, C., Hecker, M., Le Coq, D. & Deutscher, J. (2002) Bacillus subtilis mutant LicT antiterminators exhibiting enzyme I- and HPr-independent antitermination affect catabolite repression of the bglPH operon. J. Bacteriol. 184, 4819-4828 . PubMed
4. Krüger, S., Gertz, S. & Hecker, M. Transcriptional analysis of bglPH expression in Bacillus subtilis: Evidence for two distinct pathways mediating carbon catabolite repression. J. Bacteriol. 178, 2637-2644 (1996). PubMed
5. Declerck N, Dutartre H, Receveur V, Dubois V, Royer C, Aymerich S, van Tilbeurgh H (2001) Dimer stabilzation upon activation of the transcriptional antiterminator LicT. J Mol Biol 314:671-681. PubMed
6. Graille, M. et al. Activation of the LicT transcriptional antiterminator involves a domain swing/lock mechanism provoking massive structural changes. J. Biol. Chem. 280, 14780-14789 (2005). PubMed
7. Tortosa, P., Declerck, N., Dutartre, H., Lindner, C., Deutscher, J., and Le Coq, D. (2001) Sites of positive and negative regulation in the Bacillus subtilis antiterminators LicT and SacY. Mol Microbiol 41: 1381-1393. PubMed
8. van Tilbeurgh H, Le Coq D, Declerck N (2001) Crystal structure of an activated form of the PTS regulation domain from the LicT transcriptional antiterminator. EMBO J 20:3789-3799. PubMed
9. Yang Y, Declerck N, Manival X, Aymerich S, Kochoyan M (2002) Solution structure of the LicT-RNA antitermination complex: CAT clamping RAT. EMBO J 21:1987-1997. PubMed
10. Aymerich, S. and Steinmetz, M. (1992) Specificity determinants and structural features in the RNA target of the bacterial antiterminator proteins of the BglG/SacY family. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 89, 10410-10414. PubMed
11. Declerck, N., Vincent, F., Hoh, F., Aymerich, S. and van Tilbeurgh, H. (1999) RNA recognition by transcriptional antiterminators of the BglG/SacY family: functional and structural comparison of the CAT domains from SacY and LicT. J. Mol. Biol. 294, 389-402. PubMed
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