LipA

• Description: trigger enzyme: lipoic acid synthetase and regulator of comE operon expression
  
  

Gene name	lipA
Synonyms	yutB
Essential	no
Product	lipoic acid synthetase
Function	lipid metabolism
MW, pI	33 kDa, 8.251
Gene length, protein length	894 bp, 298 aa
Immediate neighbours	yutC, lytH
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Coordinates:

Phenotypes of a mutant

reduced transformation efficiency PubMed

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: no entry

• SubtiList entry: [1]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: Triacylglycerol + H₂O = diacylglycerol + a carboxylate (according to Swiss-Prot) required for comEA transcription PubMed

• Protein family: Lipoyl synthase family (according to Swiss-Prot) AB hydrolase superfamily (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

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• Localization: extracellular (signal peptide) PubMed

Database entries

• Structure:

• Swiss prot entry: O32129
• KEGG entry: BSU32330

• E.C. number: 2.8.1.8 3.1.1.3]

Expression and regulation

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• Regulation:

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Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

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References

1. Voigt et al. (2009) Cell physiology and protein secretion of Bacillus licheniformis compared to Bacillus subtilis. J Mol Microbiol Biotechnol. 16: 53-68 PubMed
2. Ogura, M. and T. Tanaka (2009) The Bacillus subtilis Late Competence Operon comE Is Transcriptionally Regulated by yutB and under Post-Transcription Initiation Control by comN (yrzD) J. Bacteriol. 191: 949-958. PubMed
3. Author1, Author2 & Author3 (year) Title Journal volume: page-page. PubMed