AroD

• Description: shikimate dehydrogenase
  
  

Gene name	aroD
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	shikimate dehydrogenase
Function	biosynthesis of aromatic amino acids
Metabolic function and regulation of this protein in SubtiPathways: Phe, Tyr, Trp
MW, pI	30 kDa, 6.077
Gene length, protein length	840 bp, 280 aa
Immediate neighbours	yqeI, yqeH
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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Expression at a glance   PubMed

Categories containing this gene/protein

biosynthesis/ acquisition of amino acids

The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU25660

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: no entry

• SubtiList entry: [1]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: Shikimate + NADP⁺ = 3-dehydroshikimate + NADPH (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Protein family: shikimate dehydrogenase family (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

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Database entries

• Structure: 2HK8 (from Aquifex aeolicus, 42% identity, 61% similarity) PubMed

• UniProt: P54374

• KEGG entry: [2]

• E.C. number: 1.1.1.25

Expression and regulation

• Operon:

• Expression browser: aroD PubMed

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Biological materials

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• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

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References

J Bergsma, K E Meihuizen, W Van Oeveren, W N Konings
Restoration of NADH oxidation with menaquinones and menaquinone analogues in membrane vesicles from the menaquinone-deficient Bacillus subtilis aroD.
Eur J Biochem: 1982, 125(3);651-7
[PubMed:6811271] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)