Pit

• Description: low-affinity inorganic phosphate transporter, proton symporter
  
  

Gene name	pit
Synonyms	ykaB
Essential	no
Product	low-affinity inorganic phosphate transporter, proton symporter
Function	phosphate uptake
MW, pI	34 kDa, 10.449
Gene length, protein length	984 bp, 328 aa
Immediate neighbours	spoIISA, ykaA
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, phosphate metabolism, membrane proteins

The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU12840

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

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:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:

• Localization:
  • membrane associated PubMed

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: O34436

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: ykaA-pit (according to DBTBS)

• Expression browser: pit PubMed

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation:

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Hannes Hahne, Susanne Wolff, Michael Hecker, Dörte Becher
From complementarity to comprehensiveness--targeting the membrane proteome of growing Bacillus subtilis by divergent approaches.
Proteomics: 2008, 8(19);4123-36
[PubMed:18763711] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)