BrxB

• Description: unknown
  
  

Gene name	yqiW
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	unknown
Function	unknown
MW, pI	16 kDa, 4.814
Gene length, protein length	435 bp, 145 aa
Immediate neighbours	artP, bmrU
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU23990

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

Categories containing this gene/protein

membrane proteins, proteins of unknown function

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family: UPF0403 family (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s): YphP

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains: contains an CxC redox motif redox active Cys residue [3]

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:

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

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: P54534

• KEGG entry: [4]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: yqiW (according to DBTBS)

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation:

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

Your additional remarks

YpdA, YqiW, YphP and YtxJ cooccur in those species predicted to synthesize bacillithiol.

References

Ahmed Gaballa, Gerald L Newton, Haike Antelmann, Derek Parsonage, Heather Upton, Mamta Rawat, Al Claiborne, Robert C Fahey, John D Helmann
Biosynthesis and functions of bacillithiol, a major low-molecular-weight thiol in Bacilli.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A: 2010, 107(14);6482-6
[PubMed:20308541] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)