HutI

• Description: imidazolone-5-propionate hydrolase
  
  

Gene name	hutI
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	imidazolone-5-propionate hydrolase
Function	histidine utilization
Gene expression levels in SubtiExpress: hutI
Metabolic function and regulation of this protein in SubtiPathways: His
MW, pI	45 kDa, 5.215
Gene length, protein length	1263 bp, 421 aa
Immediate neighbours	hutU, hutG
Sequences	Protein DNA DNA_with_flanks
Genetic context This image was kindly provided by SubtiList
Expression at a glance   PubMed

Categories containing this gene/protein

utilization of amino acids

This gene is a member of the following regulons

CcpA regulon, CodY regulon, HutP regulon

The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU39370

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: (S)-3-(5-oxo-4,5-dihydro-3H-imidazol-4-yl)propanoate + H₂O = N-formimidoyl-L-glutamate + H⁺ (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Protein family: hutI 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: cytoplasm (according to Swiss-Prot)

Database entries

• Structure: 2BB0

• UniProt: P42084

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number: 3.5.2.7

Expression and regulation

• Operon: hutP-hutH-hutU-hutI-hutG-hutM PubMed

• Expression browser: hutI PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigA PubMed

• Regulation:
  • repressed by glucose (CcpA) PubMed
  • induced by histidine (HutP) PubMed
  • repressed during growth in the presence of branched chain amino acids (CodY) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • CcpA: transcription repression PubMed
  • CodY: transcription repression PubMed
  • HutP: transcriptional antitermination at a protein-dependent RNA switch located between hutP and hutH PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Reviews

Robert A Bender
Regulation of the histidine utilization (hut) system in bacteria.
Microbiol Mol Biol Rev: 2012, 76(3);565-84
[PubMed:22933560] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Original publications

Yamei Yu, Yu-He Liang, Erik Brostromer, Jun-Min Quan, Santosh Panjikar, Yu-Hui Dong, Xiao-Dong Su
A catalytic mechanism revealed by the crystal structures of the imidazolonepropionase from Bacillus subtilis.
J Biol Chem: 2006, 281(48);36929-36
[PubMed:16990261] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Ken-Ichi Yoshida, Izumi Ishio, Eishi Nagakawa, Yoshiyuki Yamamoto, Mami Yamamoto, Yasutaro Fujita
Systematic study of gene expression and transcription organization in the gntZ-ywaA region of the Bacillus subtilis genome.
Microbiology (Reading): 2000, 146 ( Pt 3);573-579
[PubMed:10746760] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

J M Zalieckas, L V Wray, S H Fisher
trans-acting factors affecting carbon catabolite repression of the hut operon in Bacillus subtilis.
J Bacteriol: 1999, 181(9);2883-8
[PubMed:10217782] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

S H Fisher, K Rohrer, A E Ferson
Role of CodY in regulation of the Bacillus subtilis hut operon.
J Bacteriol: 1996, 178(13);3779-84
[PubMed:8682780] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

L V Wray, S H Fisher
Analysis of Bacillus subtilis hut operon expression indicates that histidine-dependent induction is mediated primarily by transcriptional antitermination and that amino acid repression is mediated by two mechanisms: regulation of transcription initiation and inhibition of histidine transport.
J Bacteriol: 1994, 176(17);5466-73
[PubMed:8071225] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)