MoaA

• Description: molybdopterin precursor biosynthesis
  
  

Gene name	moaA
Synonyms	narA, narAB
Essential	no
Product	unknown
Function	nitrate respiration
MW, pI	38 kDa, 9.285
Gene length, protein length	1023 bp, 341 aa
Immediate neighbours	rapB, fdhD
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU36700

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

Categories containing this gene/protein

biosynthesis of cofactors

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family: MoaA family (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s): contains an iron-sulfur cluster

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:

• Localization:

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: P39757

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: moaA PubMed

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation:

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

M M Nakano, Y P Dailly, P Zuber, D P Clark
Characterization of anaerobic fermentative growth of Bacillus subtilis: identification of fermentation end products and genes required for growth.
J Bacteriol: 1997, 179(21);6749-55
[PubMed:9352926] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

P Glaser, A Danchin, F Kunst, P Zuber, M M Nakano
Identification and isolation of a gene required for nitrate assimilation and anaerobic growth of Bacillus subtilis.
J Bacteriol: 1995, 177(4);1112-5
[PubMed:7860592] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)