MhqO

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  • Description: hydroquinone-specific dioxygenase, confers resistence to methyl-hydroxyquinone

Gene name mhqO
Synonyms ydfO
Essential no
Product hydroquinone-specific dioxygenase
Function resistence to methyl-hydroxyquinone
Gene expression levels in SubtiExpress: mhqO
MW, pI 34 kDa, 4.831
Gene length, protein length 936 bp, 312 aa
Immediate neighbours mhqN, mhqP
Sequences Protein DNA Advanced_DNA
Genetic context
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Expression at a glance   PubMed
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Categories containing this gene/protein

general stress proteins (controlled by SigB), resistance against oxidative and electrophile stress

This gene is a member of the following regulons

MhqR regulon, SigB regulon

The gene

Basic information

  • Locus tag: BSU05490

Phenotypes of a mutant

Database entries

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

Additional information

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

  • Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:
  • Protein family: extradiol ring-cleavage dioxygenase family (according to Swiss-Prot)

Extended information on the protein

  • Kinetic information:
  • Domains:
  • Modification:
  • Cofactor(s):
  • Effectors of protein activity:

Database entries

  • KEGG entry: [3]
  • E.C. number:

Additional information

Expression and regulation

  • Regulation:
    • induced by catechol and 2-methylhydroquinone (MhqR) 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

Stefanie Töwe, Montira Leelakriangsak, Kazuo Kobayashi, Nguyen Van Duy, Michael Hecker, Peter Zuber, Haike Antelmann
The MarR-type repressor MhqR (YkvE) regulates multiple dioxygenases/glyoxalases and an azoreductase which confer resistance to 2-methylhydroquinone and catechol in Bacillus subtilis.
Mol Microbiol: 2007, 66(1);40-54
[PubMed:17725564] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Van Duy Nguyen, Carmen Wolf, Ulrike Mäder, Michael Lalk, Peter Langer, Ulrike Lindequist, Michael Hecker, Haike Antelmann
Transcriptome and proteome analyses in response to 2-methylhydroquinone and 6-brom-2-vinyl-chroman-4-on reveal different degradation systems involved in the catabolism of aromatic compounds in Bacillus subtilis.
Proteomics: 2007, 7(9);1391-408
[PubMed:17407181] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

C W Price, P Fawcett, H Cérémonie, N Su, C K Murphy, P Youngman
Genome-wide analysis of the general stress response in Bacillus subtilis.
Mol Microbiol: 2001, 41(4);757-74
[PubMed:11532142] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)