SsuA

• Description: aliphatic sulfonate ABC transporter (binding lipoprotein)
  
  

Gene name	ssuA
Synonyms	ygbA, yzeA
Essential	no
Product	aliphatic sulfonate ABC transporter (binding lipoprotein)
Function	sulfonate uptake
MW, pI	36 kDa, 4.85
Gene length, protein length	996 bp, 332 aa
Immediate neighbours	ssuB, ssuC
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU08840

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: no entry

• SubtiList entry: [1]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family: bacterial solute-binding protein ssuA/tauA 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: cell membrane (according to Swiss-Prot)

Database entries

• Structure:

• Swiss prot entry: P40400

• KEGG entry: [2]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: ssuB-ssuA-ssuC-ssuD-ygaN

• Sigma factor: SigA

• Regulation: repressed in the presence of cysteine (CymR) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism: CymR: transcription repression PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Jan R van der Ploeg, Nicola J Cummings, Thomas Leisinger, Ian F Connerton
Bacillus subtilis genes for the utilization of sulfur from aliphatic sulfonates.
Microbiology (Reading): 1998, 144 ( Pt 9);2555-2561
[PubMed:9782504] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

1. van der Ploeg JR, Cummings NJ, Leisinger T, Connerton IF. (1998) Bacillus subtilis genes for the utilization of sulfur from aliphatic sulfonates. Microbiology Sep;144(Pt9): 2555-61. PubMed
2. Author1, Author2 & Author3 (year) Title Journal volume: page-page. PubMed