MutTA

• Description: error prevention oxidized guanine system
  
  

Gene name	mutTA
Synonyms	ytkD
Essential	no
Product	8-oxo-dGTPase (antimutator)
Function	DNA repair
MW, pI	18 kDa, 5.952
Gene length, protein length	474 bp, 158 aa
Immediate neighbours	ytlD, ytkC
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU30630

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: nucleoside triphosphate + 2H₂O = nucleoside monophosphate + 2 phosphate (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Protein family: Nudix hydrolase 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:

• UniProt: O35013

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon:

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation:

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Francisco X Castellanos-Juárez, Carlos Alvarez-Alvarez, Ronald E Yasbin, Barbara Setlow, Peter Setlow, Mario Pedraza-Reyes
YtkD and MutT protect vegetative cells but not spores of Bacillus subtilis from oxidative stress.
J Bacteriol: 2006, 188(6);2285-9
[PubMed:16513759] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Stephanie T Wang, Barbara Setlow, Erin M Conlon, Jessica L Lyon, Daisuke Imamura, Tsutomu Sato, Peter Setlow, Richard Losick, Patrick Eichenberger
The forespore line of gene expression in Bacillus subtilis.
J Mol Biol: 2006, 358(1);16-37
[PubMed:16497325] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)