LctP

• Description: lactate permease, excretion
  
  

Gene name	lctP
Synonyms	ycgC
Essential	no
Product	L-lactate permease
Function	lactate excretion
Metabolic function and regulation of this protein in SubtiPathways: Central C-metabolism
MW, pI	57 kDa, 9.766
Gene length, protein length	1623 bp, 541 aa
Immediate neighbours	ldh, mdr
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU03060

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: no entry

• SubtiList entry: [1]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family: lactate permease family (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s): LutP

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:

• Localization: cell membrane (according to Swiss-Prot)

Database entries

• Structure:

• Swiss prot entry: P55910

• KEGG entry: [2]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: ldh-lctP PubMed

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation:
  • induced under anaerobic conditions (Rex) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • Rex: transcription repression PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Jonas T Larsson, Annika Rogstam, Claes von Wachenfeldt
Coordinated patterns of cytochrome bd and lactate dehydrogenase expression in Bacillus subtilis.
Microbiology (Reading): 2005, 151(Pt 10);3323-3335
[PubMed:16207915] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)