GcvT

• Description: aminomethyltransferase (glycine cleavage system protein T)
  
  

Gene name	gcvT
Synonyms	yqhI
Essential	no
Product	aminomethyltransferase (glycine cleavage system protein T)
Function	glycine utilization
MW, pI	39 kDa, 5.734
Gene length, protein length	1086 bp, 362 aa
Immediate neighbours	gcvPA, yqhH
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU24570

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: [Protein]-S(8)-aminomethyldihydrolipoyllysine + tetrahydrofolate = [protein]-dihydrolipoyllysine + 5,10-methylenetetrahydrofolate + NH₃ (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Protein family: gcvT family (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:

• Localization:

Database entries

• Structure: 1YX2

• Swiss prot entry: P54378

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number: 2.1.2.10

Expression and regulation

• Operon: gcvT-gcvPA-gcvPB PubMed

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation: induced by glycine PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism: induction requires a co-operatively acting riboswitch PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody: