LutB

• Description: lactate catabolic enzyme
  
  

Gene name	lutB
Synonyms	yvfW
Essential	no
Product	lactate oxidase
Function	lactate utilization
Metabolic function and regulation of this protein in SubtiPathways: Central C-metabolism
MW, pI	53 kDa, 5.848
Gene length, protein length	1437 bp, 479 aa
Immediate neighbours	lutC, lutA
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
Genetic context This image was kindly provided by SubtiList

Categories containing this gene/protein

utilization of specific carbon sources

This gene is a member of the following regulons

FsrA regulon, LutR regulon, SinR regulon

The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU34040

Phenotypes of a mutant

no growth with lactate as the single carbon source PubMed

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: no entry

• SubtiList entry: [1]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: oxidation of lactate to pyruvate PubMed

• Protein family:

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s): contains an iron-sulfur cluster

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:

• Localization:

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: O07021

• KEGG entry: [2]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: lutA-lutB-lutC PubMed

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation:
  • repressed by SinR PubMed
  • induction by lactate PubMed
  • less expressed under conditions of extreme iron limitation (FsrA) PubMed
  • part of the iron sparing response, down-regulation in a fur mutant (Fur, FsrA, FpbB) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • SinR: transcription repression PubMed
  • dual repression by LutR (inducer lactate) and SinR PubMed
  • FsrA: translational repression PubMed
  • FbpB: acts as RNA chaperone, increases interaction between fsrA and lutA-lutB-lutC RNAs PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

Labs working on this gene/protein

Richard Losick, Harvard Univ., Cambridge, USA homepage