GabP

• Description: gamma-amino butyric acid permease
  
  

Gene name	gabP
Synonyms	nrg-21
Essential	no
Product	gamma-amino butyric acid permease
Function	utilization of gamma-amino butyric acid
MW, pI	50 kDa, 9.45
Gene length, protein length	1407 bp, 469 aa
Immediate neighbours	cotA, yeaB
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU06310

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: cell membrane (according to Swiss-Prot)

Database entries

• Structure:

• Swiss prot entry: P46349

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon:

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation:
  • expressed in the absence of good nitrogen sources (glutamine or ammonium) (TnrA) PubMed
  • repressed during growth in the presence of branched chain amino acids (CodY) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • TnrA: transcription activation PubMed
  • CodY: transcription repression PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

A E Ferson, L V Wray, S H Fisher
Expression of the Bacillus subtilis gabP gene is regulated independently in response to nitrogen and amino acid availability.
Mol Microbiol: 1996, 22(4);693-701
[PubMed:8951816] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

1. Brechtel CE, King SC. (1998) 4-Aminobutyrate (GABA) transporters from the amine-polyamine-choline superfamily: substrate specificity and ligand recognition profile of the 4-aminobutyrate permease from Bacillus subtilis. Biochem J. Aug 1;333 ( Pt 3): 565-71. PubMed
2. Author1, Author2 & Author3 (year) Title Journal volume: page-page. PubMed