IolF

• Description: D-chiro-inositol transport protein
  
  

Gene name	iolF
Synonyms	yxdF
Essential	no
Product	D-chiro-inositol transport protein
Function	D-chiro-inositol uptake
Metabolic function and regulation of this protein in SubtiPathways: Sugar catabolism
MW, pI	47 kDa, 9.474
Gene length, protein length	1317 bp, 439 aa
Immediate neighbours	iolG, iolE
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU39710

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: no entry

• SubtiList entry: [1]

Categories containing this gene/protein

transporters/ other, utilization of specific carbon sources, membrane proteins

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: uptake of D-chiro-inositol PubMed

• Protein family:

• 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:

• UniProt: P42417

• KEGG entry: [2]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: iolA-iolB-iolC-iolD-iolE-iolF-iolG-iolH-iolI-iolJ PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigA PubMed

• Regulation:
  • repressed by glucose (CcpA) PubMed
  • induced by inositol (IolR) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • IolR: transcription repression PubMed
  • CcpA: transcription repression PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

Labs working on this gene/protein

• Yasutaro Fujita, University of Fukuyama, Japan
• Ken-ichi Yoshida, Kobe University, Japan