MalA

• Description: 6-phospho-alpha-glucosidase
  
  

Gene name	malA
Synonyms	glvG, glvA
Essential	no
Product	6-phospho-alpha-glucosidase
Function	maltose utilization
MW, pI	50 kDa, 4.74
Gene length, protein length	1347 bp, 449 aa
Immediate neighbours	yfjA, glvR
Gene sequence (+200bp)	Protein sequence
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The gene

Basic information

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Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

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• Protein family:

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

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• Localization: membrane associated PubMed

Database entries

• Structure:

• Swiss prot entry:

• KEGG entry: [3]

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Expression and regulation

• Operon: malA-glvR-malP

• Sigma factor: SigA

• Regulation: repressed by glucose (CcpA)

• Regulatory mechanism: CcpA: transcription repression

• Additional information:

Biological materials

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• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

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References

1. Reizer et al. (1999) Novel phosphotransferase system genes revealed by genome analysis - the complete complement of PTS proteins encoded within the genome of Bacillus subtilis. Microbiology 145: 3419-3429 PubMed

1. Hahne et al. (2008) From complementarity to comprehensiveness - targeting the membrane proteome of growing Bacillus subtilis by divergent approaches. Proteomics 8: 4123-4136 PubMed
2. Thompson J, Pikis A, Ruvinov SB, Henrissat B, Yamamoto H, Sekiguchi J. 1998. The gene glvA of Bacillus subtilis 168 encodes a metal-requiring, NAD(H)-dependent 6-phospho-α-glucosidase. J. Biol. Chem. 273:27347-27356. PubMed
3. Author1, Author2 & Author3 (year) Title Journal volume: page-page. PubMed