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
Gene expression levels in SubtiExpress: pit
MW, pI	34 kDa, 10.449
Gene length, protein length	984 bp, 328 aa
Immediate neighbours	spoIISA, ykaA
Sequences	Protein DNA DNA_with_flanks
Genetic context This image was kindly provided by SubtiList
Expression at a glance   PubMed

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)