AcuA

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  • Description: protein acetylase for the control of AcsA activity

Gene name acuA
Synonyms
Essential no
Product Gcn5-related N-acetyltransferase
Function control of AcsA activity
MW, pI 24 kDa, 5.028
Gene length, protein length 630 bp, 210 aa
Immediate neighbours acsA, acuB
Gene sequence (+200bp) Protein sequence
Genetic context
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The gene

Basic information

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Phenotypes of a mutant

Database entries

  • DBTBS entry: [1]
  • SubtiList entry: [2]

Additional information

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

  • Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: acetylates (and thereby inactivates) AcsA on Lys-549 PubMed PubMed
  • Protein family: Gcn5-relatedN-acetyltransferase PubMed
  • Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

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Database entries

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  • KEGG entry: [3]
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Additional information

Expression and regulation

  • Operon:
  • Regulation: repressed by glucose (3.4-fold) (CcpA) PubMed
  • Regulatory mechanism: CcpA: transcription repression
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Biological materials

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  • lacZ fusion:
  • GFP fusion:
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Labs working on this gene/protein

Your additional remarks

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 PubMed
  2. Gardner JG, Escalante-Semerena JC (2008) Biochemical and mutational analyses of AcuA, the acetyltransferase enzyme that controls the activity of the acetyl coenzyme a synthetase (AcsA) in Bacillus subtilis. J. Bacteriol. 190: 5132-5136. PubMed
  3. Gardner JG, Escalante-Semerena JC (2009) In Bacillus subtilis, the sirtuin protein deacetylase, encoded by the srtN gene (formerly yhdZ), and functions encoded by the acuABC genes control the activity of acetyl coenzyme A synthetase. J. Bacteriol. 191: 1749-1755. PubMed
  4. Author1, Author2 & Author3 (year) Title Journal volume: page-page. PubMed