AcuA

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  • Description: protein acetylase for the control of AcsA activity

Gene name acuA
Synonyms
Essential no
Product Gcn5-related N-acetyltransferase
Function control of AcsA activity
MW, pI 24 kDa, 5.028
Gene length, protein length 630 bp, 210 aa
Immediate neighbours acsA, acuB
Get the DNA and protein sequences
(Barbe et al., 2009)
Genetic context
AcuA context.gif
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The gene

Basic information

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Phenotypes of a mutant

Database entries

  • DBTBS entry: [1]
  • SubtiList entry: [2]

Additional information

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

  • Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: acetylates (and thereby inactivates) AcsA on Lys-549 PubMed PubMed
  • Protein family: acetyltransferase family (according to Swiss-Prot) Gcn5-relatedN-acetyltransferase PubMed
  • Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

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Database entries

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Additional information

Expression and regulation

  • Operon:
  • Regulation: repressed by glucose (3.4-fold) (CcpA) PubMed
  • Regulatory mechanism: CcpA: transcription repression
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Biological materials

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Labs working on this gene/protein

Your additional remarks

References

Jeffrey G Gardner, Jorge C Escalante-Semerena
In Bacillus subtilis, the sirtuin protein deacetylase, encoded by the srtN gene (formerly yhdZ), and functions encoded by the acuABC genes control the activity of acetyl coenzyme A synthetase.
J Bacteriol: 2009, 191(6);1749-55
[PubMed:19136592] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Jeffrey G Gardner, Jorge C Escalante-Semerena
Biochemical and mutational analyses of AcuA, the acetyltransferase enzyme that controls the activity of the acetyl coenzyme a synthetase (AcsA) in Bacillus subtilis.
J Bacteriol: 2008, 190(14);5132-6
[PubMed:18487328] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Hans-Matti Blencke, Georg Homuth, Holger Ludwig, Ulrike Mäder, Michael Hecker, Jörg Stülke
Transcriptional profiling of gene expression in response to glucose in Bacillus subtilis: regulation of the central metabolic pathways.
Metab Eng: 2003, 5(2);133-49
[PubMed:12850135] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)


  1. Author1, Author2 & Author3 (year) Title Journal volume: page-page. PubMed