DegA

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  • Description: transcriptional activator involved in the degradation of glutamine phosphoribosylpyrophosphate amidotransferase

Gene name degA
Synonyms
Essential no
Product transcriptional activator (LacI family)
Function unknown
Gene expression levels in SubtiExpress: degA
MW, pI 36 kDa, 5.784
Gene length, protein length 1011 bp, 337 aa
Immediate neighbours yisR, iolX
Get the DNA and protein sequences
(Barbe et al., 2009)
Genetic context
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Expression at a glance   PubMed
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Categories containing this gene/protein

transcription factors and their control

This gene is a member of the following regulons

The gene

Basic information

  • Locus tag: BSU10840

Phenotypes of a mutant

Database entries

  • DBTBS entry: no entry
  • SubtiList entry: [1]

Additional information

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

  • Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:
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  • Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

  • Kinetic information:
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Database entries

  • Structure:
  • KEGG entry: [2]
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Additional information

Expression and regulation

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  • Regulation:
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  • Additional information: the mRNA is very stable (half-life > 15 min) PubMed

Biological materials

  • Mutant:
  • Expression vector:
  • lacZ fusion:
  • GFP fusion:
  • two-hybrid system:
  • Antibody:

Labs working on this gene/protein

Your additional remarks

References

G Hambraeus, C von Wachenfeldt, L Hederstedt
Genome-wide survey of mRNA half-lives in Bacillus subtilis identifies extremely stable mRNAs.
Mol Genet Genomics: 2003, 269(5);706-14
[PubMed:12884008] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

L B Bussey, R L Switzer
The degA gene product accelerates degradation of Bacillus subtilis phosphoribosylpyrophosphate amidotransferase in Escherichia coli.
J Bacteriol: 1993, 175(19);6348-53
[PubMed:8407808] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)