YfkN

• Description: extracellular 2',3' cyclic nucleotide phosphodiesterase, 2' (or 3') nucleotidase and 5' nucleotidase
  
  

Gene name	yfkN
Synonyms
Essential	yes PubMed
Product	2',3' cyclic nucleotide phosphodiesterase, 2' (or 3') nucleotidase and 5' nucleotidase
Function	probably phosphate acquisition
MW, pI	159 kDa, 5.021
Gene length, protein length	4386 bp, 1462 aa
Immediate neighbours	yfkO, yfkM
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU07840

Phenotypes of a mutant

essential PubMed

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family:

• Paralogous protein(s): YhcR

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:

• Localization: extracellular (signal peptide) PubMed

Database entries

• Structure:

• Swiss prot entry:

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon:

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation: repressed by glucose (5.2-fold) (CcpA) PubMed
  • expressed under conditions of phosphate limitation (PhoP) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism: CcpA: transcription repression
  • PhoP: transcription activation PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

1. Voigt et al. (2009) Cell physiology and protein secretion of Bacillus licheniformis compared to Bacillus subtilis. J Mol Microbiol Biotechnol. 16: 53-68 PubMed
2. 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
3. Thomaides, H. B., Davison, E. J., Burston, L., Johnson, H., Brown, D. R., Hunt, A. C., Errington, J., and Czaplewski, L. (2007) Essential bacterial functions encoded by gene pairs. J Bacteriol 189, 591-602. PubMed
4. Author1, Author2 & Author3 (year) Title Journal volume: page-page. PubMed