HemAT

• Description: haem-based aerotactic transducer
  
  

Gene name	hemAT
Synonyms	yhfV
Essential	no
Product	haem-based aerotactic transducer
Function	movement towards oxygen
MW, pI	48 kDa, 5.441
Gene length, protein length	1296 bp, 432 aa
Immediate neighbours	yhfU, yhfW
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU10380

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

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Extended information on the protein

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Database entries

• Structure: 1OR4 (in cyano-liganded form), 1OR6

• UniProt: O07621

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

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Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

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References

Hideaki Yoshimura, Shiro Yoshioka, Katsuaki Kobayashi, Takehiro Ohta, Takeshi Uchida, Minoru Kubo, Teizo Kitagawa, Shigetoshi Aono
Specific hydrogen-bonding networks responsible for selective O2 sensing of the oxygen sensor protein HemAT from Bacillus subtilis.
Biochemistry: 2006, 45(27);8301-7
[PubMed:16819829] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

S Hou, T Freitas, R W Larsen, M Piatibratov, V Sivozhelezov, A Yamamoto, E A Meleshkevitch, M Zimmer, G W Ordal, M Alam
Globin-coupled sensors: a class of heme-containing sensors in Archaea and Bacteria.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A: 2001, 98(16);9353-8
[PubMed:11481493] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

S Hou, R W Larsen, D Boudko, C W Riley, E Karatan, M Zimmer, G W Ordal, M Alam
Myoglobin-like aerotaxis transducers in Archaea and Bacteria.
Nature: 2000, 403(6769);540-4
[PubMed:10676961] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)