AcoC

• Description: acetoin dehydrogenase E2 component (dihydrolipoamide acetyltransferase)
  
  

Gene name	acoC
Synonyms	yfjI
Essential	no
Product	acetoin dehydrogenase E2 component (dihydrolipoamide acetyltransferase)
Function	acetoin utilization
MW, pI	42 kDa, 6.524
Gene length, protein length	1194 bp, 398 aa
Immediate neighbours	acoB, acoL
Gene sequence (+200bp)	Protein sequence
Genetic context This image was kindly provided by SubtiList

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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Extended information on the protein

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• Localization: Membrane-proximal (Spotty) PubMed

Database entries

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• Swiss prot entry:

• KEGG entry: [3]

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Expression and regulation

• Operon: acoA-acoB-acoC-acoL PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigL PubMed

• Regulation: repressed by glucose (CcpA) , induced by acetoin (AcoR) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism: CcpA: transcription repression, AcoR: transcription activation (interaction with SigL-containing RNA polymerase) PubMed

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Biological materials

• Mutant:

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• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

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Labs working on this gene/protein

Michel Debarbouille, Pasteur Institute, Paris, France Homepage

References

1. Blencke et al. (2003) Transcriptional profiling of gene expression in response to glucose in Bacillus subtilis: regulation of the central metabolic pathways. Metab Eng. 5: 133-149
2. Meile et al. (2006) Systematic localisation of proteins fused to the green fluorescent protein in Bacillus subtilis: identification of new proteins at the DNA replication factory Proteomics 6: 2135-2146. PubMed
3. Ali, N. O., Bignon, J., Rapoport, G., and Débarbouillé, M. (2001) Regulation of the acetoin catabolic pathway is controlled by sigma L in Bacillus subtilis. J. Bacteriol. 183, 2497-2504. PubMed
4. Author1, Author2 & Author3 (year) Title Journal volume: page-page. PubMed