RocA

• Description: 3-hydroxy-1-pyrroline-5-carboxylate dehydrogenase
  
  

Gene name	rocA
Synonyms	ipa-76d
Essential	no
Product	3-hydroxy-1-pyrroline-5-carboxylate dehydrogenase
Function	arginine, ornithine and citrulline utilization
Metabolic function and regulation of this protein in SubtiPathways: Ammonium/ glutamate
MW, pI	56 kDa, 5.58
Gene length, protein length	1545 bp, 515 aa
Immediate neighbours	rocB, rocG
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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Categories containing this gene/protein

utilization of amino acids, phosphoproteins

This gene is a member of the following regulons

AbrB regulon, AhrC regulon, CodY regulon, RocR regulon, SigL regulon

The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU37780

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: (S)-1-pyrroline-5-carboxylate + NAD(P)⁺ + 2 H₂O = L-glutamate + NAD(P)H (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Protein family: RocA subfamily (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s): YcgN, additional similar proteins: YfmT, AldY, YcbD, GabD, GbsA, DhaS, IolA, AldX, YwdH

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification: phosphorylation on (Thr-2 OR Thr-4 OR Tyr-5) PubMed

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:

• Localization:

Database entries

• Structure: 3RJL (1-pyrroline-5-carboxylate dehydrogenase from Bacillus licheniformis, 68% identity, 88% similarity)

• UniProt: P39634

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number: 1.5.1.12

Expression and regulation

• Operon: rocA-rocB-rocC PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigL PubMed

• Regulation:
  • induction by arginine (RocR, AhrC) PubMed
  • repressed during growth in the presence of branched chain amino acids (CodY) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • CodY: transcription repression PubMed
  • RocR: transcription activation PubMed
  • AhrC: transcription activation PubMed
  • AbrB: transcription repression PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Additional publications: PubMed