Mdh

• Description: malate dehydrogenase
  
  

Gene name	mdh
Synonyms	citH
Essential	no
Product	malate dehydrogenase
Function	TCA cycle
Gene expression levels in SubtiExpress: mdh
Interactions involving this protein in SubtInteract: Mdh
Metabolic function and regulation of this protein in SubtiPathways: Central C-metabolism
MW, pI	33 kDa, 4.727
Gene length, protein length	936 bp, 312 aa
Immediate neighbours	phoP, icd
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
Genetic context This image was kindly provided by SubtiList
Expression at a glance   PubMed

Categories containing this gene/protein

carbon core metabolism, membrane proteins, phosphoproteins

This gene is a member of the following regulons

CcpA regulon, CcpC regulon

The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU29120

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: (S)-malate + NAD⁺ = oxaloacetate + NADH (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Protein family: MDH type 3 family (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information: Reversible Michaelis-Menten PubMed

• Domains:

• Modification:
  • phosphorylated on Arg-156 PubMed
  • phosphorylation on Ser-149 PubMed

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:
  • Inhibited by Mg2+, Ca2+, Zn2+, Ag2+ and Hg2+ PubMed PubMed
  • Inhibited by oxaloacetate (above 1mM) and malate (above 7,7mM) PubMed

• Interactions:
  • CitZ-Mdh-Icd (this is the core of the TCA cycle metabolon) PubMed
  • Mdh-PckA (this interaction occurs under gluconeogenic, but not under glycolytic conditions) PubMed
  • Mdh-Ndh PubMed
  • Mdh-CitB PubMed
  • Mdh-CitG PubMed
  • Mdh-SucC PubMed

• Localization: cytoplasm (according to Swiss-Prot), membrane associated PubMed

Database entries

• Structure: 1EMD (E.coli)

• UniProt: P49814

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number: 1.1.1.37

Additional information

• The enzyme is a tetramer PubMed
• extensive information on the structure and enzymatic properties of Mdh can be found at Proteopedia

Expression and regulation

• Operon:
  • citZ-icd-mdh PubMed
  • icd-mdh PubMed

• Expression browser: mdh PubMed

• Sigma factor:
  • citZ: SigA PubMed
  • icd: SigA PubMed

• Regulation:
  • citZ: catabolite repression (CcpA) PubMed
  • citZ: repression by glucose + glutamate (CcpC) PubMed
  • mdh: constitutive

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • CcpA: transcription repression, CcpC: transcription repression PubMed
  • CcpC: transcription repression (molecular inducer: citrate) PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant: GP719(spc) & GP1150(spc), available in Stülke lab

• Expression vector:
  • pGP1123 (N-terminal Strep-tag, for SPINE, purification from B. subtilis, in pGP380) (available in Jörg Stülke's lab)
  • for expression, purification in E. coli with N-terminal His-tag, in pWH844: pGP385, available in Jörg Stülke's lab
  • pGP1755 (expression / purification of Mdh-S149A, with N-terminal His-tag from E. coli, in pWH844), available in Jörg Stülke's lab
  • pGP1764 (for expression, purification in E. coli with N-terminal Strep-tag, in pGP172, available in Jörg Stülke's lab)
  • GP1438(mdh-Strep (spc)) & GP1440(mdh-Strep (cat)), purification from B. subtilis, for SPINE, available in Stülke lab

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion: GP1431 (spc, based on pGP1870), available in the Stülke lab

• YFP fusion: GP1429 (spc, based on pGP1871), available in the Stülke lab

• two-hybrid system: B. pertussis adenylate cyclase-based bacterial two hybrid system (BACTH), available in Jörg Stülke's lab

• Antibody:

• FLAG-tag construct: GP1130 (spc, based on pGP1331), available in Jörg Stülke's lab