PycA

• Description: pyruvate carboxylase
  
  

Gene name	pycA
Synonyms	ylaP
Essential	no
Product	pyruvate carboxylase
Function	replenishment of the oxaloacetate pool
Metabolic function and regulation of this protein in SubtiPathways: Central C-metabolism
MW, pI	127 kDa, 5.407
Gene length, protein length	3444 bp, 1148 aa
Immediate neighbours	ftsW, ctaA
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU14860

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family:

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s): biotin

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:

• Localization: membrane associated PubMed

Database entries

• Structure: 3BG5 (S. aureus)

• UniProt: Q9KWU4

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number: 6.4.1.1

Additional information

PycA binds to StrepTactin, and may be co-purified when purifying Strep-tagged proteins by SPINE.

PycA is subject to Clp-dependent proteolysis upon glucose starvation PubMed

Expression and regulation

• Operon: ftsW-pycA (according to DBTBS)

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation:

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • YofA: transcription activation PubMed

• Additional information: subject to Clp-dependent proteolysis upon glucose starvation PubMed

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Hannes Hahne, Susanne Wolff, Michael Hecker, Dörte Becher
From complementarity to comprehensiveness--targeting the membrane proteome of growing Bacillus subtilis by divergent approaches.
Proteomics: 2008, 8(19);4123-36
[PubMed:18763711] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Zuolei Lu, Michio Takeuchi, Tsutomu Sato
The LysR-type transcriptional regulator YofA controls cell division through the regulation of expression of ftsW in Bacillus subtilis.
J Bacteriol: 2007, 189(15);5642-51
[PubMed:17526699] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)