YxeB

• Description: hydroxamate siderophore ABC transporter (only ferrioxamine) (binding protein)
  
  

Gene name	yxeB
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	hydroxamate siderophore ABC transporter (only ferrioxamine) (binding protein)
Function	siderophore uptake
MW, pI	35 kDa, 5.533
Gene length, protein length	957 bp, 319 aa
Immediate neighbours	yxeC, yxeA
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU39610

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: no entry

• SubtiList entry: [1]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family: bacterial solute-binding protein 8 family (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions: FhuC-(FhuB-FhuG)-(FhuD-YxeB) PubMed

• Localization: cell membrane (according to Swiss-Prot), extracellular (signal peptide) PubMed, membrane, lipid modification as retention signal PubMed

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: P54941

• KEGG entry: [2]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: yxeB

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation:
  • repressed unless the cells enter an iron starvation (Fur) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • Fur: transcription repression PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody: