Sat

• Description: sulfate adenylyltransferase
  
  

Gene name	sat
Synonyms	ylnB
Essential	no
Product	sulfate adenylyltransferase
Function	sulfate activation
Metabolic function and regulation of this protein in SubtiPathways: Cys, Met & Sulfate assimilation
MW, pI	42 kDa, 5.646
Gene length, protein length	1146 bp, 382 aa
Immediate neighbours	cysP, cysC
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU15590

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: ATP + sulfate = diphosphate + adenylyl sulfate (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Protein family: sulfate adenylyltransferase family (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s): YitA

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:

• Localization:

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: O34764

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number: 2.7.7.4

Expression and regulation

• Operon: cysH-cysP-sat-cysC-ylnD-ylnE-ylnF

• Sigma factor: SigA

• Regulation:
  • repressed by casamino acids PubMed
  • repressed in the presence of cysteine (CymR)
  • induced by methionine starvation (S-box) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • S-box: transcription termination/ antitermination, the S-box riboswitch binds S-adenosylmethionine resulting in termination PubMed
  • CymR: transcription repression

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

Labs working on this gene/protein

Isabelle Martin-Verstraete, Institute Pasteur, Paris, France

References

Daniela Albanesi, Maria Cecilia Mansilla, Gustavo E Schujman, Diego de Mendoza
Bacillus subtilis cysteine synthetase is a global regulator of the expression of genes involved in sulfur assimilation.
J Bacteriol: 2005, 187(22);7631-8
[PubMed:16267287] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Ulrike Mäder, Georg Homuth, Christian Scharf, Knut Büttner, Rüdiger Bode, Michael Hecker
Transcriptome and proteome analysis of Bacillus subtilis gene expression modulated by amino acid availability.
J Bacteriol: 2002, 184(15);4288-95
[PubMed:12107147] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)