BshB2

• Description: N-acetylglucosamin-malate deacetylase, involved in bacillithiol synthesis
  
  

Gene name	bshB2
Synonyms	yojG
Essential	no
Product	N-acetylglucosamin-malate deacetylase
Function	biosynthesis of bacillithiol
MW, pI	16 kDa, 4.511
Gene length, protein length	426 bp, 142 aa
Immediate neighbours	rsbRC, yojF
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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Categories containing this gene/protein

miscellaneous metabolic pathways, resistance against oxidative and electrophile stress

The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU19460

Expression

Expression

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: no entry

• SubtiList entry: [1]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family:

• Paralogous protein(s): BshB1

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

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• Interactions:

• Localization:

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: O31857

• KEGG entry: [2]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: yoyC-yojF-bshB2 PubMed

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation:

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant: bshB2 null mutant and bshB1 / bshB2 double null mutant available in John Helmann lab

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Ahmed Gaballa, Gerald L Newton, Haike Antelmann, Derek Parsonage, Heather Upton, Mamta Rawat, Al Claiborne, Robert C Fahey, John D Helmann
Biosynthesis and functions of bacillithiol, a major low-molecular-weight thiol in Bacilli.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A: 2010, 107(14);6482-6
[PubMed:20308541] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Gerald L Newton, Mamta Rawat, James J La Clair, Vishnu Karthik Jothivasan, Tanya Budiarto, Chris J Hamilton, Al Claiborne, John D Helmann, Robert C Fahey
Bacillithiol is an antioxidant thiol produced in Bacilli.
Nat Chem Biol: 2009, 5(9);625-7
[PubMed:19578333] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)