AcoC

• Description: acetoin dehydrogenase E2 component (dihydrolipoamide acetyltransferase)
  
  

Gene name	acoC
Synonyms	yfjI
Essential	no
Product	acetoin dehydrogenase E2 component (dihydrolipoamide acetyltransferase)
Function	acetoin utilization
MW, pI	42 kDa, 6.524
Gene length, protein length	1194 bp, 398 aa
Immediate neighbours	acoB, acoL
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Coordinates:

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: Acetyl-CoA + enzyme N(6)-(dihydrolipoyl)lysine = CoA + enzyme N(6)-(S-acetyldihydrolipoyl)lysine (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Protein family: lipoyl-binding domain (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:

• Localization: Membrane-proximal (Spotty) PubMed

Database entries

• Structure:

• Swiss prot entry: O31550

• KEGG entry: BSU08080

• E.C. number: 2.3.1.12

Expression and regulation

• Operon: acoA-acoB-acoC-acoL PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigL PubMed

• Regulation: repressed by glucose (CcpA) , induced by acetoin (AcoR) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism: CcpA: transcription repression, AcoR: transcription activation (interaction with SigL-containing RNA polymerase) PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

Labs working on this gene/protein

Michel Debarbouille, Pasteur Institute, Paris, France Homepage

References

1. Author1, Author2 & Author3 (year) Title Journal volume: page-page. PubMed