AroA

• Description: 3-deoxy-D-arabino-heptulosonate 7-phosphate synthase / chorismate mutase-isozyme 3
  
  

Gene name	aroA
Synonyms	aroG
Essential	no
Product	3-deoxy-D-arabino-heptulosonate 7-phosphate synthase / chorismate mutase-isozyme 3
Function	biosynthesis of aromatic amino acids
Metabolic function and regulation of this protein in SubtiPathways: Phe, Tyr, Trp
MW, pI	39 kDa, 5.341
Gene length, protein length	1074 bp, 358 aa
Immediate neighbours	ccpA, ytxJ
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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Categories containing this gene/protein

biosynthesis/ acquisition of amino acids, phosphoproteins

The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU29750

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: Phosphoenolpyruvate + D-erythrose 4-phosphate + H₂O = 3-deoxy-D-arabino-hept-2-ulosonate 7-phosphate + phosphate (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Protein family: class-I DAHP synthetase family (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification: phosphorylation on Ser-2 PubMed, phosphorylation on Thr-4 PubMed

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity: subject to feedback inhibition PubMed

• Interactions:

• Localization:

Database entries

• Structure: 1VR6 (from Thermotoga maritima, 51% identity, 68% similarity)

• UniProt: P39912

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number: 2.5.1.54 5 and 5.4.99.5

Expression and regulation

• Operon: aroA PubMed

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation:

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information: subject to feedback inhibition PubMed

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Ana Gutiérrez-Preciado, Tina M Henkin, Frank J Grundy, Charles Yanofsky, Enrique Merino
Biochemical features and functional implications of the RNA-based T-box regulatory mechanism.
Microbiol Mol Biol Rev: 2009, 73(1);36-61
[PubMed:19258532] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Christine Eymann, Dörte Becher, Jörg Bernhardt, Katrin Gronau, Anja Klutzny, Michael Hecker
Dynamics of protein phosphorylation on Ser/Thr/Tyr in Bacillus subtilis.
Proteomics: 2007, 7(19);3509-26
[PubMed:17726680] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Boris Macek, Ivan Mijakovic, Jesper V Olsen, Florian Gnad, Chanchal Kumar, Peter R Jensen, Matthias Mann
The serine/threonine/tyrosine phosphoproteome of the model bacterium Bacillus subtilis.
Mol Cell Proteomics: 2007, 6(4);697-707
[PubMed:17218307] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Alia Lapidus, Nathalie Galleron, Alexei Sorokin, S Dusko Ehrlich
Sequencing and functional annotation of the Bacillus subtilis genes in the 200 kb rrnB-dnaB region.
Microbiology (Reading): 1997, 143 ( Pt 11);3431-3441
[PubMed:9387221] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)