SrfAC

• Description: surfactin synthetase / competence
  
  

Gene name	srfAC
Synonyms	comL
Essential	no
Product	surfactin synthetase / competence
Function	antibiotic synthesis
MW, pI	143 kDa, 4.97
Gene length, protein length	3822 bp, 1274 aa
Immediate neighbours	comS, srfAD
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU03510

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family: acyl carrier domain (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification: phosphorylation on Ser-1003 PubMed

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:

• Localization:

Database entries

• Structure: 2VSQ

• Swiss prot entry: Q08787

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon:

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation:
  • repressed during growth in the presence of branched chain amino acids (CodY) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • CodY: transcription repression PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Alan Tanovic, Stefan A Samel, Lars-Oliver Essen, Mohamed A Marahiel
Crystal structure of the termination module of a nonribosomal peptide synthetase.
Science: 2008, 321(5889);659-63
[PubMed:18583577] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Mitsuo Ogura, Yasutaro Fujita
Bacillus subtilis rapD, a direct target of transcription repression by RghR, negatively regulates srfA expression.
FEMS Microbiol Lett: 2007, 268(1);73-80
[PubMed:17227471] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Boris Macek, Ivan Mijakovic, Jesper V Olsen, Florian Gnad, Chanchal Kumar, Peter R Jensen, Matthias Mann
The serine/threonine/tyrosine phosphoproteome of the model bacterium Bacillus subtilis.
Mol Cell Proteomics: 2007, 6(4);697-707
[PubMed:17218307] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Kentaro Hayashi, Taku Ohsawa, Kazuo Kobayashi, Naotake Ogasawara, Mitsuo Ogura
The H2O2 stress-responsive regulator PerR positively regulates srfA expression in Bacillus subtilis.
J Bacteriol: 2005, 187(19);6659-67
[PubMed:16166527] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

P Serror, A L Sonenshein
CodY is required for nutritional repression of Bacillus subtilis genetic competence.
J Bacteriol: 1996, 178(20);5910-5
[PubMed:8830686] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

D Vollenbroich, N Mehta, P Zuber, J Vater, R M Kamp
Analysis of surfactin synthetase subunits in srfA mutants of Bacillus subtilis OKB105.
J Bacteriol: 1994, 176(2);395-400
[PubMed:8288534] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

1. Macek et al. (2007) The serine/ threonine/ tyrosine phosphoproteome of the model bacterium Bacillus subtilis. Mol. Cell. Proteomics 6: 697-707 PubMed
2. Author1, Author2 & Author3 (year) Title Journal volume: page-page. PubMed