QcrC

• Description: menaquinol:cytochrome c oxidoreductase (cytochrome b/c subunit), component of the cytochrome bc complex
  
  

Gene name	qcrC
Synonyms	bfcC, petD
Essential	no
Product	menaquinol:cytochrome c oxidoreductase (cytochrome b/c subunit)
Function	respiration
MW, pI	28 kDa, 7.171
Gene length, protein length	765 bp, 255 aa
Immediate neighbours	ypjA, qcrB
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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Categories containing this gene/protein

respiration, membrane proteins

This gene is a member of the following regulons

AbrB regulon, ResD regulon

The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU22540

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:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:

• Localization: cell membrane (according to Swiss-Prot)

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: P46913

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: qcrA-qcrB-qcrC PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigA PubMed

• Regulation:
  • repressed by casamino acids PubMed
  • induced by oxygen limitation (ResD) PubMed
  • repressed by glucose (CcpA) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • ResD: transcription activation PubMed
  • CcpA: transcription repression PubMed
  • AbrB: transcription repression PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Additional publications: PubMed

Hans-Matti Blencke, Georg Homuth, Holger Ludwig, Ulrike Mäder, Michael Hecker, Jörg Stülke
Transcriptional profiling of gene expression in response to glucose in Bacillus subtilis: regulation of the central metabolic pathways.
Metab Eng: 2003, 5(2);133-49
[PubMed:12850135] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Ulrike Mäder, Georg Homuth, Christian Scharf, Knut Büttner, Rüdiger Bode, Michael Hecker
Transcriptome and proteome analysis of Bacillus subtilis gene expression modulated by amino acid availability.
J Bacteriol: 2002, 184(15);4288-95
[PubMed:12107147] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

G Sun, E Sharkova, R Chesnut, S Birkey, M F Duggan, A Sorokin, P Pujic, S D Ehrlich, F M Hulett
Regulators of aerobic and anaerobic respiration in Bacillus subtilis.
J Bacteriol: 1996, 178(5);1374-85
[PubMed:8631715] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

J Yu, L Hederstedt, P J Piggot
The cytochrome bc complex (menaquinone:cytochrome c reductase) in Bacillus subtilis has a nontraditional subunit organization.
J Bacteriol: 1995, 177(23);6751-60
[PubMed:7592464] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)