FadF

• Description: similar to iron-sulphur-binding reductase
  
  

Gene name	fadF
Synonyms	ywjF
Essential	no
Product	unknown
Function	fatty acid degradation
Metabolic function and regulation of this protein in SubtiPathways: Fatty acid degradation
MW, pI	79 kDa, 6.526
Gene length, protein length	2115 bp, 705 aa
Immediate neighbours	acdA, ywjE
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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Categories containing this gene/protein

utilization of lipids, membrane proteins

This gene is a member of the following regulons

FadR regulon

The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU37180

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family:

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s): contains an iron-sulfur cluster

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:

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

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: P45866

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: fadF-acdA-rpoE PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigA PubMed

• Regulation:
  • repressed in the absence of long-chain fatty acids (FadR) PubMed
  • repressed by glucose (5-fold) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • FadR: transcription repression PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody: