AraE

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  • Description: L-arabinose permease

Gene name araE
Synonyms yvbR
Essential no
Product L-arabinose permease
Function uptake of arabinose, galactose and xylose
MW, pI 50 kDa, 9.259
Gene length, protein length 1392 bp, 464 aa
Immediate neighbours cggR, araR
Gene sequence (+200bp) Protein sequence
Genetic context
AraE context.gif
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The gene

Basic information

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Phenotypes of a mutant

Database entries

  • DBTBS entry: no entry
  • SubtiList entry: [1]

Additional information

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

  • Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: transports arabinose, and also xylose and galactose PubMed
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Extended information on the protein

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Database entries

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  • KEGG entry: [2]
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Additional information

Expression and regulation

  • Operon:
  • Regulation: repressed by glucose (CcpA), induced by arabinose PubMed
  • Regulatory mechanism: CcpA: transcription repression
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Biological materials

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Labs working on this gene/protein

Your additional remarks

References

  1. Krispin, O., and R. Allmansberger. (1998) The Bacillus subtilis AraE protein displays a broad substrate specificity for several different sugars. J. Bacteriol. 180: 3250-3252. PubMed
  2. Sá-Nogueira I, Ramos SS. (1997) Cloning, functional analysis, and transcriptional regulation of the Bacillus subtilis araE gene involved in L-arabinose utilization. J Bacteriol. Dec;179(24): 7705-11. PubMed
  3. Author1, Author2 & Author3 (year) Title Journal volume: page-page. PubMed