BpsB

• Description: methyltransferase, involved in polyketide synthesis
  
  

Gene name	ypbQ
Synonyms	bpsB
Essential	no
Product	methyltransferase
Function	polyketide synthesis
MW, pI	19 kDa, 9.551
Gene length, protein length	504 bp, 168 aa
Immediate neighbours	fbpC, bcsA
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU22040

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: no entry

• SubtiList entry: [1]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: conversion of triketide pyrones to alkylpyrone methyl ethers PubMed

• Protein family:

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

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Database entries

• Structure:

• Swiss prot entry: P54158

• KEGG entry: [2]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: bcsA-ypbQ PubMed

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Biological materials

• Mutant:

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• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Chiaki Nakano, Hiroki Ozawa, Genki Akanuma, Nobutaka Funa, Sueharu Horinouchi
Biosynthesis of aliphatic polyketides by type III polyketide synthase and methyltransferase in Bacillus subtilis.
J Bacteriol: 2009, 191(15);4916-23
[PubMed:19465653] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)