AlaT

• Description: similar to PLP-dependent methionine aminotransferase
  
  

Gene name	alaT
Synonyms	yugH
Essential	no
Product	unknown
Function	unknown
MW, pI	42 kDa, 5.106
Gene length, protein length	1158 bp, 386 aa
Immediate neighbours	yugI, alaR
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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Categories containing this gene/protein

poorly characterized/ putative enzymes

The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU31400

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: no entry

• SubtiList entry: [1]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family:

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:

• Localization:

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: Q795M6

• KEGG entry: [2]

• E.C. number:

Additional information

The gene is annotated in KEGG as an ortholog of N-succinyldiaminopimelate aminotransferase EC 2.6.1.17. It is annotated in Swiss-Prot as “alanine transaminase”. In MetaCyc the gene is marked as “similar to aspartate aminotransferase”. No literature/experimental evidence supporting the annotation is available. PubMed

Expression and regulation

• Operon: alaR-alaT

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation:

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information:
  • A ncRNA is predicted between yugI and alaT PubMed

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody: