YcbC

• Description: 5-dehydro-4-deoxyglucarate dehydratase
  
  

Gene name	ycbC
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	5-dehydro-4-deoxyglucarate dehydratase
Function	utilization of D-glucarate/galactarate
MW, pI	33 kDa, 5.375
Gene length, protein length	924 bp, 308 aa
Immediate neighbours	glnL, ycbD
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU02460

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

Categories containing this gene/protein

utilization of specific carbon sources

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: 5-dehydro-4-deoxy-D-glucarate = 2,5-dioxopentanoate + H₂O + CO₂ (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Protein family: DHDPS family (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:

• Localization:

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: P42235

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number: 4.2.1.41

Expression and regulation

• Operon: ycbC-ycbD-ycbE-ycbF-ycbG-ycbH-ycbJ PubMed

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation: induced by D-glucarate/galactarate (YcbG) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism: YcbG: transcription repression PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Shigeo Hosoya, Kunio Yamane, Michio Takeuchi, Tsutomu Sato
Identification and characterization of the Bacillus subtilis D-glucarate/galactarate utilization operon ycbCDEFGHJ.
FEMS Microbiol Lett: 2002, 210(2);193-9
[PubMed:12044674] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)