YhfQ

• Description: iron/ citrate ABC transporter (solute-binding protein)
  
  

Gene name	yhfQ
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	iron/ citrate ABC transporter (solute-binding protein)
Function	iron uptake
MW, pI	38 kDa, 9.303
Gene length, protein length	1044 bp, 348 aa
Immediate neighbours	yhfP, yhfR
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU10330

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: no entry

• SubtiList entry: [1]

Categories containing this gene/protein

ABC transporters, acquisition of iron, iron metabolism, membrane proteins

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: YfmF-(YfmD-YfmE)-(YfmC-YhfQ) PubMed

• Localization: associated to the membrane (via YfmD-YfmE) PubMed

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: C0SP94

• KEGG entry: [2]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon:

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation:
  • repressed unless the cells enter an iron starvation (Fur) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • Fur: transcription repression PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody: