YciB

• Description: zinc transporter
  
  

Gene name	yciB
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	zinc transporter
Function	zinc uptake
MW, pI	21 kDa, 6.18
Gene length, protein length	582 bp, 194 aa
Immediate neighbours	yciA, yciC
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU03350

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:

• Localization: lipoprotein, cell membrane at the cell poles PubMed

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: C0SP99

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: yciA-yciB-yciC PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigA PubMed

• Regulation:
  • induced by zinc starvation (Zur) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • Zur: transcription repression in the presence of zinc PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Marc Bramkamp
The putative Bacillus subtilis L,D-transpeptidase YciB is a lipoprotein that localizes to the cell poles in a divisome-dependent manner.
Arch Microbiol: 2010, 192(1);57-68
[PubMed:20013255] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Ahmed Gaballa, Tao Wang, Rick W Ye, John D Helmann
Functional analysis of the Bacillus subtilis Zur regulon.
J Bacteriol: 2002, 184(23);6508-14
[PubMed:12426338] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

A Gaballa, J D Helmann
Identification of a zinc-specific metalloregulatory protein, Zur, controlling zinc transport operons in Bacillus subtilis.
J Bacteriol: 1998, 180(22);5815-21
[PubMed:9811636] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)