SrfAB

• Description: surfactin synthetase / competence
  
  

Gene name	srfAB
Synonyms	comL
Essential	no
Product	surfactin synthetase / competence
Function	antibiotic synthesis
MW, pI	400 kDa, 4.903
Gene length, protein length	10761 bp, 3587 aa
Immediate neighbours	srfAA, comS
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU03490

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family: ATP-dependent AMP-binding enzyme family (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification: phosphorylation on Ser-999 AND Ser-2045 PubMed

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:

• Localization: membrane PubMed

Database entries

• Structure:

• Swiss prot entry: Q04747

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon:

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation:
  • repressed during growth in the presence of branched chain amino acids (CodY) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • CodY: transcription repression PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody: