XynB

• Description: xylan beta-1,4-xylosidase
  
  

Gene name	xynB
Synonyms	ynaK
Essential	no
Product	xylan beta-1,4-xylosidase
Function	xylan degradation
Metabolic function and regulation of this protein in SubtiPathways: Sugar catabolism
MW, pI	61 kDa, 5.326
Gene length, protein length	1599 bp, 533 aa
Immediate neighbours	xynP, xylR
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU17580

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: Hydrolysis of (1->4)-beta-D-xylans, to remove successive D-xylose residues from the non-reducing termini (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Protein family: glycosyl hydrolase 43 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: 1YIF

• UniProt: P94489

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number: 3.2.1.37

Expression and regulation

• Operon: xynP-xynB (according to DBTBS)

• Sigma factor: SigA PubMed

• Regulation:
  • carbon catabolite repression (CcpA) PubMed
  • induction by xylose (XylR) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • CcpA: transcription repression PubMed
  • XylR: transcription repression PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Kalpana D Singh, Matthias H Schmalisch, Jörg Stülke, Boris Görke
Carbon catabolite repression in Bacillus subtilis: quantitative analysis of repression exerted by different carbon sources.
J Bacteriol: 2008, 190(21);7275-84
[PubMed:18757537] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

C Lindner, J Stülke, M Hecker
Regulation of xylanolytic enzymes in Bacillus subtilis.
Microbiology (Reading): 1994, 140 ( Pt 4);753-7
[PubMed:8012596] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)