MrpB

• Description: Na+/H+ antiporter subunit, multiple resistance and pH homeostasis
  
  

Gene name	mrpB
Synonyms	yufU
Essential	yes PubMed
Product	Na+/H+ antiporter subunit
Function	sodium export
MW, pI	15 kDa, 4.912
Gene length, protein length	429 bp, 143 aa
Immediate neighbours	mrpA, mrpC
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
Genetic context This image was kindly provided by SubtiList

The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU31610

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):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions: MrpA-MrpB-MrpC-MrpD-MrpE-MrpF-MrpG (complex)

• Localization: cell membrane (according to Swiss-Prot)

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: O05259

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: mrpA-mrpB-mrpC-mrpD-mrpE-mrpF-mrpG PubMed

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation:

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:
  • SM-GN9 (mrpB-spc), available in Anne Galinier's and Boris Görke's labs

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Yusuke Kajiyama, Masato Otagiri, Junichi Sekiguchi, Toshiaki Kudo, Saori Kosono
The MrpA, MrpB and MrpD subunits of the Mrp antiporter complex in Bacillus subtilis contain membrane-embedded and essential acidic residues.
Microbiology (Reading): 2009, 155(Pt 7);2137-2147
[PubMed:19389778] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

M Ito, A A Guffanti, W Wang, T A Krulwich
Effects of nonpolar mutations in each of the seven Bacillus subtilis mrp genes suggest complex interactions among the gene products in support of Na(+) and alkali but not cholate resistance.
J Bacteriol: 2000, 182(20);5663-70
[PubMed:11004162] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

M Ito, A A Guffanti, B Oudega, T A Krulwich
mrp, a multigene, multifunctional locus in Bacillus subtilis with roles in resistance to cholate and to Na+ and in pH homeostasis.
J Bacteriol: 1999, 181(8);2394-402
[PubMed:10198001] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Bauke Oudega, Gregory Koningstein, Luísa Rodrigues, Maria de Sales Ramon, Helmut Hilbert, Andreas Düsterhöft, Thomas M Pohl, Thomas Weitzenegger
Analysis of the Bacillus subtilis genome: cloning and nucleotide sequence of a 62 kb region between 275 degrees (rrnB) and 284 degrees (pai).
Microbiology (Reading): 1997, 143 ( Pt 8);2769-2774
[PubMed:9274030] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)