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• Description: transcriptional repressor of the iol operon
  
  

Gene name	iolR
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	transcriptional repressor
Function	regulation of myo-inositol catabolism
MW, pI	28 kDa, 6.331
Gene length, protein length	753 bp, 251 aa
Immediate neighbours	iolA, iolS
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU39770

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family:

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity: inducer: 2-deoxy-5-keto-D-gluconic acid-6-phosphate

• Interactions:

• Localization:

Database entries

• Structure:

• Swiss prot entry: P46337

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: iolR-iolS PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigA PubMed

• Regulation:
  • induced by inositol (IolR) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • IolR: transcription repression PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

Labs working on this gene/protein

• Yasutaro Fujita, University of Fukuyama, Japan
• Ken-ichi Yoshida, Kobe University, Japan

References

1. Yoshida K, Yamaguchi M, Morinaga T, Kinehara M, Ikeuchi M, Ashida H, Fujita Y. (2008) myo-Inositol catabolism in Bacillus subtilis. J Biol Chem. Apr 18;283(16): 10415-24. PubMed