GlyA

• Description: serine hydroxymethyltransferase
  
  

Gene name	glyA
Synonyms	glyC, ipc-34d
Essential	yes PubMed
Product	serine hydroxymethyltransferase
Function	biosynthesis of glycine
Gene expression levels in SubtiExpress: glyA
Metabolic function and regulation of this protein in SubtiPathways: glyA
MW, pI	45 kDa, 5.475
Gene length, protein length	1245 bp, 415 aa
Immediate neighbours	upp, ywlG
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

biosynthesis/ acquisition of amino acids, essential genes, phosphoproteins

This gene is a member of the following regulons

PurR regulon, T-box

The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU36900

Phenotypes of a mutant

essential PubMed

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: 5,10-methylenetetrahydrofolate + glycine + H₂O = tetrahydrofolate + L-serine (according to Swiss-Prot)

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

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification: phosphorylated on ser/ thr/ tyr PubMed, PubMed

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:

• Localization: cytoplasm (according to Swiss-Prot)

Database entries

• Structure: 2VGU (complex with L-serine, Geobacillus stearothermophilus), 2VI8 (Geobacillus stearothermophilus)

• UniProt: P39148

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number: 2.1.2.1

Expression and regulation

• Operon: glyA (according to DBTBS)

• Expression browser: glyA PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigA PubMed

• Regulation:
  • repressed in the presence of adenine or adenosine(PurR) PubMed
  • induced by glycine limitation (T-box) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • T-box: RNA switch, transcriptional antitermination PubMed
  • PurR: transcription repression (molecular inducer: PRPP) PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Anant Narayan Bhatt, Vinod Bhakuni, Ashutosh Kumar, M Yahiya Khan, Mohammad Imran Siddiqi
Alkaline pH-dependent differential unfolding characteristics of mesophilic and thermophilic homologs of dimeric serine hydroxymethyltransferase.
Biochim Biophys Acta: 2010, 1804(6);1294-300
[PubMed:20152942] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Ana Gutiérrez-Preciado, Tina M Henkin, Frank J Grundy, Charles Yanofsky, Enrique Merino
Biochemical features and functional implications of the RNA-based T-box regulatory mechanism.
Microbiol Mol Biol Rev: 2009, 73(1);36-61
[PubMed:19258532] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Yann Duroc, Carmela Giglione, Thierry Meinnel
Mutations in three distinct loci cause resistance to peptide deformylase inhibitors in Bacillus subtilis.
Antimicrob Agents Chemother: 2009, 53(4);1673-8
[PubMed:19171795] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Christine Eymann, Dörte Becher, Jörg Bernhardt, Katrin Gronau, Anja Klutzny, Michael Hecker
Dynamics of protein phosphorylation on Ser/Thr/Tyr in Bacillus subtilis.
Proteomics: 2007, 7(19);3509-26
[PubMed:17726680] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Alain Lévine, Françoise Vannier, Cédric Absalon, Lauriane Kuhn, Peter Jackson, Elaine Scrivener, Valérie Labas, Joëlle Vinh, Patrick Courtney, Jérôme Garin, Simone J Séror
Analysis of the dynamic Bacillus subtilis Ser/Thr/Tyr phosphoproteome implicated in a wide variety of cellular processes.
Proteomics: 2006, 6(7);2157-73
[PubMed:16493705] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

H H Saxild, K Brunstedt, K I Nielsen, H Jarmer, P Nygaard
Definition of the Bacillus subtilis PurR operator using genetic and bioinformatic tools and expansion of the PurR regulon with glyA, guaC, pbuG, xpt-pbuX, yqhZ-folD, and pbuO.
J Bacteriol: 2001, 183(21);6175-83
[PubMed:11591660] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)