FabL

• Description: enoyl-acyl carrier protein reductase
  
  

Gene name	fabL
Synonyms	yfhR, ygaA
Essential	no
Product	enoyl-acyl carrier protein reductase
Function	fatty acid biosynthesis
Gene expression levels in SubtiExpress: fabL
Metabolic function and regulation of this protein in SubtiPathways: fabL
MW, pI	27 kDa, 5.967
Gene length, protein length	750 bp, 250 aa
Immediate neighbours	yfhS, sspE
Sequences	Protein DNA DNA_with_flanks
Genetic context This image was kindly provided by SubtiList
Expression at a glance   PubMed

Categories containing this gene/protein

biosynthesis of lipids, sporulation proteins

This gene is a member of the following regulons

SigG regulon, SpoVT regulon, YfhP regulon

The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU08650

Database entries

• BsubCyc: BSU08650

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family:

• Paralogous protein(s): FabI, one of the two proteins has to be present for viability PubMed

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:

• Localization:

Database entries

• BsubCyc: BSU08650

• Structure: 3OIC PubMed

• UniProt: P71079

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon:
  • mutY-fabL-sspE PubMed
  • fabL-sspE PubMed

• Expression browser: fabL PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigA PubMed, SigG PubMed

• Regulation:
  • repressed by YfhP during exponential growth PubMed
  • repressed by SpoVT during forespore expression PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Reviews

Yasutaro Fujita, Hiroshi Matsuoka, Kazutake Hirooka
Regulation of fatty acid metabolism in bacteria.
Mol Microbiol: 2007, 66(4);829-39
[PubMed:17919287] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Stephen W White, Jie Zheng, Yong-Mei Zhang, Rock
The structural biology of type II fatty acid biosynthesis.
Annu Rev Biochem: 2005, 74;791-831
[PubMed:15952903] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Original Publications

Kook-Han Kim, Byung Hak Ha, Su Jin Kim, Seung Kon Hong, Kwang Yeon Hwang, Eunice Eunkyeong Kim
Crystal structures of Enoyl-ACP reductases I (FabI) and III (FabL) from B. subtilis.
J Mol Biol: 2011, 406(3);403-15
[PubMed:21185310] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Helena B Thomaides, Ella J Davison, Lisa Burston, Hazel Johnson, David R Brown, Alison C Hunt, Jeffery Errington, Lloyd Czaplewski
Essential bacterial functions encoded by gene pairs.
J Bacteriol: 2007, 189(2);591-602
[PubMed:17114254] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Leif Steil, Mónica Serrano, Adriano O Henriques, Uwe Völker
Genome-wide analysis of temporally regulated and compartment-specific gene expression in sporulating cells of Bacillus subtilis.
Microbiology (Reading): 2005, 151(Pt 2);399-420
[PubMed:15699190] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

R J Heath, N Su, C K Murphy, C O Rock
The enoyl-[acyl-carrier-protein] reductases FabI and FabL from Bacillus subtilis.
J Biol Chem: 2000, 275(51);40128-33
[PubMed:11007778] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Hiroki Yamamoto, Masao Mori, Junichi Sekiguchi
Transcription of genes near the sspE locus of the Bacillus subtilis genome.
Microbiology (Reading): 1999, 145 ( Pt 8);2171-2180
[PubMed:10463184] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

I Bagyan, J Hobot, S Cutting
A compartmentalized regulator of developmental gene expression in Bacillus subtilis.
J Bacteriol: 1996, 178(15);4500-7
[PubMed:8755877] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)