MtnX

• Description: 2-hydroxy-3-keto-5-methylthiopentenyl-1-phosphate phosphatase
  
  

Gene name	mtnX
Synonyms	ykrX
Essential	no
Product	2-hydroxy-3-keto-5-methylthiopentenyl- 1-phosphate phosphatase
Function	methionine salvage
Metabolic function and regulation of this protein in SubtiPathways: Cys, Met & Sulfate assimilation
MW, pI	26 kDa, 4.658
Gene length, protein length	705 bp, 235 aa
Immediate neighbours	mtnW, mtnB
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU13600

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: 2-hydroxy-5-(methylthio)-3-oxopent-1-enyl phosphate + H₂O = 1,2-dihydroxy-5-(methylthio)pent-1-en-3-one + phosphate (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Protein family: MtnX 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: 2FEA

• Swiss prot entry: O31667

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: mtnW-mtnX-mtnB-mtnD PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigA PubMed

• Regulation:
  • repressed by casamino acids PubMed
  • induced by methionine starvation (S-box) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism: S-box: transcription termination/ antitermination, the S-box riboswitch binds S-adenosylmethionine resulting in termination PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Ulrike Mäder, Georg Homuth, Christian Scharf, Knut Büttner, Rüdiger Bode, Michael Hecker
Transcriptome and proteome analysis of Bacillus subtilis gene expression modulated by amino acid availability.
J Bacteriol: 2002, 184(15);4288-95
[PubMed:12107147] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Agnieszka Sekowska, Antoine Danchin
The methionine salvage pathway in Bacillus subtilis.
BMC Microbiol: 2002, 2;8
[PubMed:12022921] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I e)

Brooke A Murphy, Frank J Grundy, Tina M Henkin
Prediction of gene function in methylthioadenosine recycling from regulatory signals.
J Bacteriol: 2002, 184(8);2314-8
[PubMed:11914366] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)