IlvB

• Description: acetolactate synthase (large subunit)
  
  

Gene name	ilvB
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	acetolactate synthase (large subunit)
Function	biosynthesis of branched-chain amino acids
MW, pI	62 kDa, 5.178
Gene length, protein length	1722 bp, 574 aa
Immediate neighbours	ilvH, ysnD
Gene sequence (+200bp)	Protein sequence
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The gene

Basic information

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Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

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• KEGG entry: [3]

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Additional information

• subject to Clp-dependent proteolysis upon glucose starvation PubMed

Expression and regulation

• Operon: ilvB-ilvH-ilvC-leuA-leuB-leuC-leuD

• Sigma factor: SigA

• Regulation: repressed by casamino acids PubMed , expressed in the absence of branched-chain amino acids (BCAA), expression is stimulated in the presence of glucose (CcpA) PubMed, during growth repressed under nitrogen limiting conditions (TnrA) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism: glucose regulation: CcpA PubMed, TnrA: transcription repession PubMed, repression by BCAA: tRNA-controlled RNA switch (T-box) that mediates termination/antitermination, transcription repression by CodY

• Additional information: subject to Clp-dependent proteolysis upon glucose starvation PubMed

Biological materials

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References

1. Mäder et al. (2002) Transcriptome and Proteome Analysis of Bacillus subtilis Gene Expression Modulated by Amino Acid Availability. J. Bacteriol 184: 1844288-4295 PubMed
2. Gerth et al. (2008) Clp-dependent proteolysis down-regulates central metabolic pathways in glucose-starved Bacillus subtilis. J Bacteriol 190:321-331 PubMed
3. Grandoni, J. A., S. A. Zahler, and J. M. Calvo. 1992. Transcriptional regulation of the ilv-leu operon of Bacillus subtilis. J. Bacteriol. 174:3212-3219. PubMed
4. Ludwig, H., Meinken, C., Matin, A. & Stülke, J. (2002) Insufficient expression of the ilv-leu operon encoding enzymes of branched-chain amino acids biosynthesis limits growth of a Bacillus subtilis ccpA mutant. J. Bacteriol. 184: 5174-5178. PubMed
5. Shivers RP, Sonenshein AL: Bacillus subtilis ilvB operon: an intersection of global regulons. Mol Microbiol 2005, 56:1549-1559. PubMed
6. Tojo S, Satomura T, Morisaki K, Deutscher J, Hirooka K, Fujita Y: Elaborate transcription regulation of the Bacillus subtilis ilv-leu operon involved in the biosynthesis of branched-chain amino acids through global regulators of CcpA, CodY and TnrA. Mol Microbiol 2005, 56:1560-1573. PubMed
7. Tojo S, Satomura T, Morisaki K, Yoshida KI, Hirooka K, Fujita Y: Negative transcriptional regulation of the ilv-leu operon for biosynthesis of branched-chain amino acids through the Bacillus subtilis global regulator TnrA. J Bacteriol 2004, 186:7971-7979. PubMed
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