LutA

• Description: lactate catabolic enzyme
  
  

Gene name	lutA
Synonyms	yvfV
Essential	no
Product	lactate oxidase
Function	lactate utilization
Metabolic function and regulation of this protein in SubtiPathways: Central C-metabolism
MW, pI	26 kDa, 6.25
Gene length, protein length	714 bp, 238 aa
Immediate neighbours	lutB, yvfU
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU34050

Phenotypes of a mutant

no growth with lactate as the single carbon source PubMed

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: no entry

• SubtiList entry: [1]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: oxidation of lactate to pyruvate PubMed

• 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:

• Swiss prot entry:

• KEGG entry: [2]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: lutA-lutB-lutC PubMed

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation: induction by lactate PubMed
  • repressed by SinR PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism: dual repression by LutR (inducer lactate) and SinR PubMed
  • SinR: transcription repression PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

Labs working on this gene/protein

Richard Losick, Harvard Univ., Cambridge, USA homepage

References

Yunrong Chai, Roberto Kolter, Richard Losick
A widely conserved gene cluster required for lactate utilization in Bacillus subtilis and its involvement in biofilm formation.
J Bacteriol: 2009, 191(8);2423-30
[PubMed:19201793] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Frances Chu, Daniel B Kearns, Steven S Branda, Roberto Kolter, Richard Losick
Targets of the master regulator of biofilm formation in Bacillus subtilis.
Mol Microbiol: 2006, 59(4);1216-28
[PubMed:16430695] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)