Fni

• Description: isopentenyl diphosphate isomerase
  
  

Gene name	fni
Synonyms	ypgA
Essential	no
Product	isopentenyl diphosphate isomerase
Function	lipid metabolism
MW, pI	22 kDa, 6.101
Gene length, protein length	636 bp, 212 aa
Immediate neighbours	yphA, ypfD
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU22870

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: no entry

• SubtiList entry: [1]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: Isopentenyl diphosphate = dimethylallyl diphosphate (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Protein family: IPP isomerase type 2 family (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s):

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: 1P0N (complex with FMN), 1P0K

• Swiss prot entry: P50740

• KEGG entry: [2]

• E.C. number: 5.3.3.2

Expression and regulation

• Operon:

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation:

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Mattijs K Julsing, Michael Rijpkema, Herman J Woerdenbag, Wim J Quax, Oliver Kayser
Functional analysis of genes involved in the biosynthesis of isoprene in Bacillus subtilis.
Appl Microbiol Biotechnol: 2007, 75(6);1377-84
[PubMed:17458547] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Motoki Takagi, Kazuhide Kaneda, Tomohiro Shimizu, Yoichi Hayakawa, Haruo Seto, Tomohisa Kuzuyama
Bacillus subtilis ypgA gene is fni, a nonessential gene encoding type 2 isopentenyl diphosphate isomerase.
Biosci Biotechnol Biochem: 2004, 68(1);132-7
[PubMed:14745175] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Stefan Steinbacher, Johannes Kaiser, Stefan Gerhardt, Wolfgang Eisenreich, Robert Huber, Adelbert Bacher, Felix Rohdich
Crystal structure of the type II isopentenyl diphosphate:dimethylallyl diphosphate isomerase from Bacillus subtilis.
J Mol Biol: 2003, 329(5);973-82
[PubMed:12798687] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)