Maa

• Description: maltose O-acetyltransferase
  
  

Gene name	maa
Synonyms	yyaI
Essential	no
Product	maltose O-acetyltransferase
Function	maltose and maltodextrin utilization
MW, pI	20 kDa, 6.162
Gene length, protein length	552 bp, 184 aa
Immediate neighbours	yyaJ, yyaH
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU40850

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: no entry

• SubtiList entry: [1]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: Acetyl-CoA + maltose = CoA + acetyl-maltose (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Protein family: transferase hexapeptide repeat family (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

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• Modification:

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Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: P37515

• KEGG entry: [2]

• E.C. number: 2.3.1.79

Expression and regulation

• Operon:

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation:

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Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Takashi Inaoka, Takenori Satomura, Yasutaro Fujita, Kozo Ochi
Novel gene regulation mediated by overproduction of secondary metabolite neotrehalosadiamine in Bacillus subtilis.
FEMS Microbiol Lett: 2009, 291(2);151-6
[PubMed:19087206] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)