alsD

alsD
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acetolactate decarboxylase

Locus
BSU_36000
Molecular weight
28.65 kDa
Isoelectric point
4.6
Protein length
Gene length
Function
overflow metabolism
Product
acetolactate decarboxylase
Essential
no
E.C.
4.1.1.5
Synonyms
alsD

Genomic Context

Categories containing this gene/protein

List of homologs in different organisms, belongs to COG3527 (Galperin et al., 2021)

This gene is a member of the following regulons

Gene
Coordinates
3,708,799  3,709,566
Phenotypes of a mutant
reduced acetoin production PubMed
impaired biofilm development PubMed
The protein
Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity
(2S)-2-acetolactate + H+ --> (R)-acetoin + CO2 (according to UniProt)
Protein family
alpha-acetolactate decarboxylase family (single member, according to UniProt)
Structure
Modification
phosphorylated on ser/ thr/ tyr PubMed, in vitro phosphorylated by PrkC on Ser-88 PubMed
Expression and Regulation
Operons
Genes
Description
Regulation
induction by acetate (AlsR) PubMed
expression is heterogeneous PubMed
Regulatory mechanism
AlsR: activation, in the presence of acetate PubMed, in alsR regulon
Rex: repression, if the ratio NADH2/NAD is high PubMed, in rex regulon
stringent response: positive regulation, due to presence of adenines at +1 and +2 positions of the transcript PubMed, in stringent response
Sigma factors
SigA: sigma factor, PubMed, in sigA regulon
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Biological materials
Mutant
BKE36000 (alsD::erm  trpC2) available at BGSCPubMed, upstream reverse: _UP1_CATATTTCCCTTCACTCCTT,  downstream forward: _UP4_TAAAAGAAAAAAAGAAAGCC
BKK36000 (alsD::kan  trpC2) available at BGSCPubMed, upstream reverse: _UP1_CATATTTCCCTTCACTCCTT,  downstream forward: _UP4_TAAAAGAAAAAAAGAAAGCC
Expression vectors
for expression, purification in E. coli with N-terminal Strep-tag, in pGP172: pGP822, available in Jörg Stülke's lab, PubMed
References
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