MhqD

• Description: may be involved in protection against methyl-hydroquinone
  
  

Gene name	mhqD
Synonyms	yodD
Essential	no
Product	unknown
Function	may be involved in protection against methyl-hydroquinone
Gene expression levels in SubtiExpress: mhqD
MW, pI	22 kDa, 5.616
Gene length, protein length	600 bp, 200 aa
Immediate neighbours	yodC, mhqE
Sequences	Protein DNA DNA_with_flanks
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Expression at a glance   PubMed

Categories containing this gene/protein

resistance against oxidative and electrophile stress

This gene is a member of the following regulons

MhqR regulon

The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU19560

Database entries

• BsubCyc: BSU19560

• 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:

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Database entries

• BsubCyc: BSU19560

• Structure:

• UniProt: O34842

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: mhqE-mhqD PubMed

• Expression browser: mhqD PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigA PubMed

• Regulation:
  • induced by 2-methylhydroquinone (MhqR) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • MhqR: transcription repression PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

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References

Stefanie Töwe, Montira Leelakriangsak, Kazuo Kobayashi, Nguyen Van Duy, Michael Hecker, Peter Zuber, Haike Antelmann
The MarR-type repressor MhqR (YkvE) regulates multiple dioxygenases/glyoxalases and an azoreductase which confer resistance to 2-methylhydroquinone and catechol in Bacillus subtilis.
Mol Microbiol: 2007, 66(1);40-54
[PubMed:17725564] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Van Duy Nguyen, Carmen Wolf, Ulrike Mäder, Michael Lalk, Peter Langer, Ulrike Lindequist, Michael Hecker, Haike Antelmann
Transcriptome and proteome analyses in response to 2-methylhydroquinone and 6-brom-2-vinyl-chroman-4-on reveal different degradation systems involved in the catabolism of aromatic compounds in Bacillus subtilis.
Proteomics: 2007, 7(9);1391-408
[PubMed:17407181] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)