GutP

• Description: glucitol permease
  
  

Gene name	gutP
Synonyms	ydjD
Essential	no
Product	glucitol permease
Function	glucitol uptake
Metabolic function and regulation of this protein in SubtiPathways: Sugar catabolism
MW, pI	51 kDa, 9.807
Gene length, protein length	1389 bp, 463 aa
Immediate neighbours	gutB, fruC
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
Genetic context This image was kindly provided by SubtiList

Categories containing this gene/protein

transporters/ other, utilization of specific carbon sources

This gene is a member of the following regulons

GutR regulon

The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU06160

Expression

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: no entry

• SubtiList entry: [1]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family: View classification (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

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• Interactions:

• Localization:

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: O34368

• KEGG entry: [2]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: gutB-gutP PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigA PubMed

• Regulation: induced by glucitol (GutR) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism: GutR: transcriptional activation PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Shouji Watanabe, Miyuki Hamano, Hiroshi Kakeshita, Keigo Bunai, Shigeo Tojo, Hirotake Yamaguchi, Yasutaro Fujita, Sui-Lam Wong, Kunio Yamane
Mannitol-1-phosphate dehydrogenase (MtlD) is required for mannitol and glucitol assimilation in Bacillus subtilis: possible cooperation of mtl and gut operons.
J Bacteriol: 2003, 185(16);4816-24
[PubMed:12897001] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

R Ye, S L Wong
Transcriptional regulation of the Bacillus subtilis glucitol dehydrogenase gene.
J Bacteriol: 1994, 176(11);3314-20
[PubMed:8195086] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)