AscR

• Description: transcriptional activator of the tcy operon
  
  

Gene name	ytlI
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	transcriptional activator (LysR type)
Function	regulation of sulphur metabolism
MW, pI	35 kDa, 6.228
Gene length, protein length	924 bp, 308 aa
Immediate neighbours	ytmI, ytkL
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU29400

Database entries

• 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

• Structure:

• Swiss prot entry: O35038

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: ytlI

• Sigma factor: SigA

• Regulation: repressed in the presence of cysteine (CymR) PubMed
  • repressed in the presence of cysteine (CymR) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism: CymR: transcription repression PubMed
  • CymR: transcription repression PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Sergine Even, Pierre Burguière, Sandrine Auger, Olga Soutourina, Antoine Danchin, Isabelle Martin-Verstraete
Global control of cysteine metabolism by CymR in Bacillus subtilis.
J Bacteriol: 2006, 188(6);2184-97
[PubMed:16513748] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Pierre Burguière, Juliette Fert, Isabelle Guillouard, Sandrine Auger, Antoine Danchin, Isabelle Martin-Verstraete
Regulation of the Bacillus subtilis ytmI operon, involved in sulfur metabolism.
J Bacteriol: 2005, 187(17);6019-30
[PubMed:16109943] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Kyle N Erwin, Shunji Nakano, Peter Zuber
Sulfate-dependent repression of genes that function in organosulfur metabolism in Bacillus subtilis requires Spx.
J Bacteriol: 2005, 187(12);4042-9
[PubMed:15937167] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Jean-Yves Coppée, Sandrine Auger, Evelyne Turlin, Agnieszka Sekowska, Jean-Pierre Le Caer, Valérie Labas, Valérie Vagner, Antoine Danchin, Isabelle Martin-Verstraete
Sulfur-limitation-regulated proteins in Bacillus subtilis: a two-dimensional gel electrophoresis study.
Microbiology (Reading): 2001, 147(Pt 6);1631-1640
[PubMed:11390694] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)