LicA

• Description: lichenan-specific phosphotransferase system, EIIA component
  
  

Gene name	licA
Synonyms	celC
Essential	no
Product	lichenan-specific phosphotransferase system, EIIA component
Function	lichenan uptake and phosphorylation
Metabolic function and regulation of this protein in SubtiPathways: Sugar catabolism
MW, pI	12 kDa, 4.641
Gene length, protein length	330 bp, 110 aa
Immediate neighbours	licH, licC
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU38570

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: no entry

• SubtiList entry: [1]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: Protein EIIA N(pi)-phospho-L-histidine + protein EIIB = protein EIIA + protein EIIB N(pi)-phospho-L-histidine/cysteine (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Protein family: PTS permease, lactose permease (Lac) family PubMed

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:

• Localization: cytoplasm (according to Swiss-Prot)

Database entries

• Structure: 3K1S (IIA(Cel) from B. anthracis, 42% identity)

• UniProt: P46319

• KEGG entry: [2]

• E.C. number: 2.7.1.69

Expression and regulation

• Operon: licB-licC-licA-licH PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigA PubMed

• Regulation: repressed by glucose (CcpA) , carbon catabolite repression, induction by oligomeric ß-glucosides PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism: CcpA: transcription repression, catabolite repression: repression by CcpA, induction: transcription activation by the PRD-type regulator LicR PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody: