YfmC

• Description: iron/ citrate ABC transporter (binding protein)
  
  

Gene name	yfmC
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	iron/ citrate ABC transporter (binding protein)
Function	iron uptake
Gene expression levels in SubtiExpress: yfmC
Interactions involving this protein in SubtInteract: YfmC
MW, pI	34 kDa, 7.879
Gene length, protein length	945 bp, 315 aa
Immediate neighbours	yfmD, yfmB
Sequences	Protein DNA DNA_with_flanks
Genetic context This image was kindly provided by SubtiList
Expression at a glance   PubMed

Categories containing this gene/protein

ABC transporters, acquisition of iron, iron metabolism, membrane proteins

This gene is a member of the following regulons

Fur regulon

The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU07520

Phenotypes of a mutant

• poor growth with the Fe(III)-dicitrate as single source of iron PubMed

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: no entry

• SubtiList entry: [1]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family: Fe/B12 periplasmic-binding domain (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:
  • YfmF-(YfmD-YfmE)-(YfmC-YhfQ) PubMed

• Localization:
  • associated to the membrane (via YfmD-YfmE) PubMed
  • extracellular (signal peptide) PubMed, lipid modification as retention signal

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: O34348

• KEGG entry: [2]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: yfmC-yfmD-yfmE-yfmF PubMed

• Expression browser: yfmC PubMed

• Sigma factor:

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

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • Fur: transcription repression PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Marcus Miethke, Timo Kraushaar, Mohamed A Marahiel
Uptake of xenosiderophores in Bacillus subtilis occurs with high affinity and enhances the folding stabilities of substrate binding proteins.
FEBS Lett: 2013, 587(2);206-13
[PubMed:23220087] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Letal I Salzberg, Leagh Powell, Karsten Hokamp, Eric Botella, David Noone, Kevin M Devine
The WalRK (YycFG) and σ(I) RsgI regulators cooperate to control CwlO and LytE expression in exponentially growing and stressed Bacillus subtilis cells.
Mol Microbiol: 2013, 87(1);180-95
[PubMed:23199363] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Birgit Voigt, Haike Antelmann, Dirk Albrecht, Armin Ehrenreich, Karl-Heinz Maurer, Stefan Evers, Gerhard Gottschalk, Jan Maarten van Dijl, Thomas Schweder, Michael Hecker
Cell physiology and protein secretion of Bacillus licheniformis compared to Bacillus subtilis.
J Mol Microbiol Biotechnol: 2009, 16(1-2);53-68
[PubMed:18957862] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Hannes Hahne, Susanne Wolff, Michael Hecker, Dörte Becher
From complementarity to comprehensiveness--targeting the membrane proteome of growing Bacillus subtilis by divergent approaches.
Proteomics: 2008, 8(19);4123-36
[PubMed:18763711] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Juliane Ollinger, Kyung-Bok Song, Haike Antelmann, Michael Hecker, John D Helmann
Role of the Fur regulon in iron transport in Bacillus subtilis.
J Bacteriol: 2006, 188(10);3664-73
[PubMed:16672620] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Noel Baichoo, Tao Wang, Rick Ye, John D Helmann
Global analysis of the Bacillus subtilis Fur regulon and the iron starvation stimulon.
Mol Microbiol: 2002, 45(6);1613-29
[PubMed:12354229] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Y Quentin, G Fichant, F Denizot
Inventory, assembly and analysis of Bacillus subtilis ABC transport systems.
J Mol Biol: 1999, 287(3);467-84
[PubMed:10092453] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)