MetP

• Description: methionine ABC transporter, permease
  
  

Gene name	metP
Synonyms	yusB
Essential	no
Product	methionine ABC transporter, permease
Function	methionine uptake
MW, pI	23 kDa, 6.618
Gene length, protein length	666 bp, 222 aa
Immediate neighbours	metQ, metN
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU32740

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: no entry

• SubtiList entry: [1]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

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• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

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Database entries

• Structure:

• Swiss prot entry:

• KEGG entry: [2]

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Expression and regulation

• Operon: metN-metP-metQ PubMed

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation:
  • activated during growth in the presence of branched chain amino acids (CodY) PubMed
  • induced by methionine starvation (S-box) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism: S-box: transcription termination/ antitermination, the S-box riboswitch binds S-adenosylmethionine resulting in termination PubMed
  • CodY: transcription activation PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Virginie Molle, Yoshiko Nakaura, Robert P Shivers, Hirotake Yamaguchi, Richard Losick, Yasutaro Fujita, Abraham L Sonenshein
Additional targets of the Bacillus subtilis global regulator CodY identified by chromatin immunoprecipitation and genome-wide transcript analysis.
J Bacteriol: 2003, 185(6);1911-22
[PubMed:12618455] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

1. Author1, Author2 & Author3 (year) Title Journal volume: page-page. PubMed