NarG

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  • Description: nitrate reductase (alpha subunit)

Gene name narG
Synonyms
Essential no
Product nitrate reductase (alpha subunit)
Function nitrate respiration, nitrogen assimilation
Gene expression levels in SubtiExpress: narG
MW, pI 138 kDa, 6.061
Gene length, protein length 3684 bp, 1228 aa
Immediate neighbours narH, arfM
Sequences Protein DNA DNA_with_flanks
Genetic context
NarG context.gif
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Expression at a glance   PubMed
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Categories containing this gene/protein

respiration, membrane proteins

This gene is a member of the following regulons

Fnr regulon

The gene

Basic information

  • Locus tag: BSU37280

Phenotypes of a mutant

Database entries

  • DBTBS entry: [1]
  • SubtiList entry: [2]

Additional information

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

  • Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: Nitrite + acceptor = nitrate + reduced acceptor (according to Swiss-Prot)
  • Protein family: prokaryotic molybdopterin-containing oxidoreductase family (according to Swiss-Prot)
  • Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

  • Kinetic information:
  • Modification:
  • Effectors of protein activity:

Database entries

  • Structure:
  • KEGG entry: [3]
  • E.C. number:

Additional information

Expression and regulation

  • Regulation:
    • expressed under anaerobic conditions (Fnr) PubMed
  • Regulatory mechanism:
  • Additional information:

Biological materials

  • Mutant:
  • Expression vector:
  • lacZ fusion:
  • GFP fusion:
  • two-hybrid system:
  • Antibody:

Labs working on this gene/protein

Your additional remarks

References

Reviews

D J Richardson, B C Berks, D A Russell, S Spiro, C J Taylor
Functional, biochemical and genetic diversity of prokaryotic nitrate reductases.
Cell Mol Life Sci: 2001, 58(2);165-78
[PubMed:11289299] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Original publications

Pedro M F Sousa, Marco A M Videira, Filipe A S Santos, Brian L Hood, Thomas P Conrads, Ana M P Melo
The bc:caa3 supercomplexes from the Gram positive bacterium Bacillus subtilis respiratory chain: a megacomplex organization?
Arch Biochem Biophys: 2013, 537(1);153-60
[PubMed:23880299] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Heike Reents, Richard Münch, Thorben Dammeyer, Dieter Jahn, Elisabeth Härtig
The Fnr regulon of Bacillus subtilis.
J Bacteriol: 2006, 188(3);1103-12
[PubMed:16428414] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

M M Nakano, Y P Dailly, P Zuber, D P Clark
Characterization of anaerobic fermentative growth of Bacillus subtilis: identification of fermentation end products and genes required for growth.
J Bacteriol: 1997, 179(21);6749-55
[PubMed:9352926] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

H Cruz Ramos, L Boursier, I Moszer, F Kunst, A Danchin, P Glaser
Anaerobic transcription activation in Bacillus subtilis: identification of distinct FNR-dependent and -independent regulatory mechanisms.
EMBO J: 1995, 14(23);5984-94
[PubMed:8846791] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)