DhbF

• Description: involved in 2,3-dihydroxybenzoate biosynthesis
  
  

Gene name	dhbF
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	unknown
Function	biosynthesis of the siderophore bacillibactin
Gene expression levels in SubtiExpress: dhbF
MW, pI	263 kDa, 4.737
Gene length, protein length	7134 bp, 2378 aa
Immediate neighbours	ybdZ, dhbB
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
Genetic context This image was kindly provided by SubtiList
Expression at a glance   PubMed

Categories containing this gene/protein

acquisition of iron, iron metabolism, membrane proteins, phosphoproteins

This gene is a member of the following regulons

AbrB regulon, Fur regulon

The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU31960

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family: ATP-dependent AMP-binding enzyme family (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification: phosphorylation on Ser-988 AND Ser-996 PubMed

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:

• Localization:
  • membrane PubMed

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: P45745

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: dhbA-dhbC-dhbE-dhbB-dhbF PubMed

• Expression browser: dhbF PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigA PubMed

• Regulation:
  • induced by iron starvation (Fur) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • Fur: transcription repression PubMed
  • AbrB: transcription repression PubMed

• Additional information:
  • the amount of the mRNA is substantially decreased upon depletion of RNase Y PubMed

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Additional publications: PubMed

Lehnik-Habrink M, Schaffer M, Mäder U, Diethmaier C, Herzberg C, Stülke J  
RNA processing in Bacillus subtilis: identification of targets of the essential RNase Y. 
Mol Microbiol. 2011 81(6): 1459-1473. 
PubMed:21815947