FadB

• Description: 3-hydroxyacyl-CoA dehydratase
  
  

Gene name	fadB
Synonyms	ysiB
Essential	no
Product	3-hydroxyacyl-CoA dehydratase
Function	fatty acid degradation
MW, pI	27 kDa, 4.951
Gene length, protein length	774 bp, 258 aa
Immediate neighbours	etfB, fadR
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU28540

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: (3S)-3-hydroxyacyl-CoA = trans-2(or 3)-enoyl-CoA + H₂O (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Protein family: enoyl-CoA hydratase/isomerase 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:

• Swiss prot entry: P94549

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number: 4.2.1.17

Expression and regulation

• Operon:

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation: repressed by glucose (3.8-fold) (CcpA) PubMed
  • repressed in the absence of long-chain fatty acids (FadR) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism: CcpA: transcription repression
  • FadR: transcription repression PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody: