XynC

• Description: endo-xylanase, preference for methylglucurono-xylan
  
  

Gene name	xynC
Synonyms	ynfF
Essential	no
Product	endo-xylanase
Function	xylan degradation
MW, pI	47 kDa, 9.078
Gene length, protein length	1266 bp, 422 aa
Immediate neighbours	ynfE, xynD
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
Genetic context This image was kindly provided by SubtiList

Categories containing this gene/protein

utilization of specific carbon sources

This gene is a member of the following regulons

AbrB regulon

The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU18150

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: no entry

• SubtiList entry: [1]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: Endohydrolysis of (1->4)-beta-D-xylosyl links in some glucuronoarabinoxylans (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Protein family: glycosyl hydrolase 30 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:
  • extracellular (signal peptide) PubMed

Database entries

• Structure: 3GTN PubMed

• UniProt: Q45070

• KEGG entry: [2]

• E.C. number: 3.2.1.136

Expression and regulation

• Operon: xynD-xynC PubMed

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation:

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • AbrB: transcription repression PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Reviews

Massimiliano Marvasi, Pieter T Visscher, Lilliam Casillas Martinez
Exopolymeric substances (EPS) from Bacillus subtilis: polymers and genes encoding their synthesis.
FEMS Microbiol Lett: 2010, 313(1);1-9
[PubMed:20735481] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Original publications

Additional publications: PubMed

Franz J St John, David K Godwin, James F Preston, Edwin Pozharski, Jason C Hurlbert
Crystallization and crystallographic analysis of Bacillus subtilis xylanase C.
Acta Crystallogr Sect F Struct Biol Cryst Commun: 2009, 65(Pt 5);499-503
[PubMed:19407387] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Birgit Voigt, Haike Antelmann, Dirk Albrecht, Armin Ehrenreich, Karl-Heinz Maurer, Stefan Evers, Gerhard Gottschalk, Jan Maarten van Dijl, Thomas Schweder, Michael Hecker
Cell physiology and protein secretion of Bacillus licheniformis compared to Bacillus subtilis.
J Mol Microbiol Biotechnol: 2009, 16(1-2);53-68
[PubMed:18957862] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Franz J St John, John D Rice, James F Preston
Characterization of XynC from Bacillus subtilis subsp. subtilis strain 168 and analysis of its role in depolymerization of glucuronoxylan.
J Bacteriol: 2006, 188(24);8617-26
[PubMed:17028274] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)