YfmE

• Description: iron/citrate ABC transporter (permease)
  
  

Gene name	yfmE
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	iron/citrate ABC transporter (permease)
Function	iron uptake
MW, pI	35 kDa, 10.061
Gene length, protein length	999 bp, 333 aa
Immediate neighbours	yfmF, yfmD
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
Genetic context This image was kindly provided by SubtiList

Categories containing this gene/protein

ABC transporters, acquisition of iron, iron metabolism, membrane proteins

This gene is a member of the following regulons

Fur regulon

The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU07500

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: no entry

• SubtiList entry: [1]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family: FecCD subfamily (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions: YfmF-(YfmD-YfmE)-(YfmC-YhfQ) PubMed

• Localization: cell membrane PubMed

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: O34832

• KEGG entry: [2]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: yfmC-yfmD-yfmE-yfmF PubMed

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation:
  • induced upon iron starvation (Fur) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • Fur: transcription repression PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Juliane Ollinger, Kyung-Bok Song, Haike Antelmann, Michael Hecker, John D Helmann
Role of the Fur regulon in iron transport in Bacillus subtilis.
J Bacteriol: 2006, 188(10);3664-73
[PubMed:16672620] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Y Quentin, G Fichant, F Denizot
Inventory, assembly and analysis of Bacillus subtilis ABC transport systems.
J Mol Biol: 1999, 287(3);467-84
[PubMed:10092453] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)