YaaO

• Description: similar to arginine decarboxylase, but without enzymatic activity
  
  

Gene name	yaaO
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	putative arginine decarboxylase
Function	unknown
Metabolic function and regulation of this protein in SubtiPathways: Nucleotides (regulation)
MW, pI	52 kDa, 5.713
Gene length, protein length	1440 bp, 480 aa
Immediate neighbours	yaaN, tmk
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU00270

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: no entry

• SubtiList entry: [1]

Categories containing this gene/protein

poorly characterized/ putative enzymes

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family: Orn/Lys/Arg decarboxylase class-I family (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s): SpeA

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

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Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: P37536

• KEGG entry: [2]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon:

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation:

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Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Matthew Burrell, Colin C Hanfrey, Ewan J Murray, Nicola R Stanley-Wall, Anthony J Michael
Evolution and multiplicity of arginine decarboxylases in polyamine biosynthesis and essential role in Bacillus subtilis biofilm formation.
J Biol Chem: 2010, 285(50);39224-38
[PubMed:20876533] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)