GcvPA

• Description: glycine decarboxylase (subunit 1)
  
  

Gene name	gcvPA
Synonyms	yqhJ, gcvP
Essential	no
Product	glycine decarboxylase (subunit 1)
Function	glycine utilization
MW, pI	49 kDa, 6.947
Gene length, protein length	1344 bp, 448 aa
Immediate neighbours	gcvPB, gcvT
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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Categories containing this gene/protein

utilization of amino acids

This gene is a member of the following regulons

Gly-box

The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU24560

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: Glycine + H-protein-lipoyllysine = H-protein-S-aminomethyldihydrolipoyllysine + CO₂ (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Protein family: N-terminal subunit subfamily (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:

• Localization:

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: P54376

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number: 1.4.4.2

Expression and regulation

• Operon: gcvT-gcvPA-gcvPB PubMed

• Expression browser: gcvPA PubMed

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation:
  • repressed by casamino acids PubMed
  • induced by glycine PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • induction requires a co-operatively acting riboswitch (Gly-box) PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody: