PfkA

• Description: phosphofructokinase, glycolytic enzyme
  
  

Gene name	pfkA
Synonyms	pfk
Essential	yes
Product	6-phosphofructokinase
Function	catabolic enzyme in glycolysis
Metabolic function and regulation of this protein in SubtiPathways: Central C-metabolism, Sugar catabolism
MW, pI	34,1 kDa, 6.14
Gene length, protein length	957 bp, 319 amino acids
Immediate neighbours	pyk, accA
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU29190

Phenotypes of a mutant

• Essential PubMed

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: ATP + D-fructose 6-phosphate = ADP + D-fructose 1,6-bisphosphate (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Protein family: phosphofructokinase family (according to Swiss-Prot) phosphofructokinase family

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information: Allosteric Regulation (Reversible) PubMed

• Domains:
  • 3 x nucleotide binding domain (ATP) (21–25), (154–158), (171–187)

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s): Mg2+

• Effectors of protein activity:
  • Inhibited by citrate, PEP (Hill Coefficient 3) and Ca2+ (competes with Mg2+) in B. licheniformes PubMed.
  • Inhibited by ATP (competitively) and f6p (non-competitively) in G. stearothermophillus PubMed
  • Activated by GDP and ADP in lower concentrations (1mM); above that inhibition, competing with the ATP for the binding site (in G. stearothermophillus) PubMed
  • Activated by NH4+ PubMed

• Interactions: PfkA-Pgm, PfkA-Eno, PfkA-Rny, PfkA-PnpA, PfkA-RnjA PubMed

• Localization: cytoplasm (Homogeneous) PubMed

Database entries

• Structure: 1MTO (mutant, complex with fructose-6-phosphate, Geobacillus stearothermophilus), 4PFK (Geobacillus stearothermophilus), Geobacillus stearothermophilus NCBI, Mutant form, complex with fructose-6-phosphate Geobacillus stearothermophilus NCBI

• UniProt: O34529

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number: 2.7.1.11

Additional information

PfkA is a moonlighting protein. PubMed

Expression and regulation

• Operon: pfkA-pyk-ytzA PubMed

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation:
  • twofold induced by glucose PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:
  • for expression/ purification from B. subtilis with N-terminal Strep-tag, for SPINE, in pGP380: pGP87, available in Stülke lab
  • for expression/ purification from E. coli with N-terminal His-tag, in pWH844: pGP393, available in Stülke lab
  • for expression in B. subtilis, in pBQ200: pGP1422, available in Stülke lab

• lacZ fusion: pGP511 (in pAC6), available in Stülke lab

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system: B. pertussis adenylate cyclase-based bacterial two hybrid system (BACTH), available in Stülke lab

• Antibody:

Labs working on this gene/protein

Jörg Stülke, University of Göttingen, Germany Homepage

References

Fabian M Commichau, Fabian M Rothe, Christina Herzberg, Eva Wagner, Daniel Hellwig, Martin Lehnik-Habrink, Elke Hammer, Uwe Völker, Jörg Stülke
Novel activities of glycolytic enzymes in Bacillus subtilis: interactions with essential proteins involved in mRNA processing.
Mol Cell Proteomics: 2009, 8(6);1350-60
[PubMed:19193632] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Jean-Christophe Meile, Ling Juan Wu, S Dusko Ehrlich, Jeff Errington, Philippe Noirot
Systematic localisation of proteins fused to the green fluorescent protein in Bacillus subtilis: identification of new proteins at the DNA replication factory.
Proteomics: 2006, 6(7);2135-46
[PubMed:16479537] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

H Ludwig, G Homuth, M Schmalisch, F M Dyka, M Hecker, J Stülke
Transcription of glycolytic genes and operons in Bacillus subtilis: evidence for the presence of multiple levels of control of the gapA operon.
Mol Microbiol: 2001, 41(2);409-22
[PubMed:11489127] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

X Zhu, M Byrnes, J W Nelson, S H Chang
Role of glycine 212 in the allosteric behavior of phosphofructokinase from Bacillus stearothermophilus.
Biochemistry: 1995, 34(8);2560-5
[PubMed:7873536] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

M Byrnes, X Zhu, E S Younathan, S H Chang
Kinetic characteristics of phosphofructokinase from Bacillus stearothermophilus: MgATP nonallosterically inhibits the enzyme.
Biochemistry: 1994, 33(11);3424-31
[PubMed:8136379] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

C K Marschke, R W Bernlohr
Purification and characterization of phosphofructokinase of Bacillus licheniformis.
Arch Biochem Biophys: 1973, 156(1);1-16
[PubMed:4269800] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)