ThiF

• Description: hydroxyethylthiazole phosphate biosynthesis
  
  

Gene name	thiF
Synonyms	yjbU
Essential	no
Product	unknown
Function	biosynthesis of thiamine
Metabolic function and regulation of this protein in SubtiPathways: Thiamin synthesis
MW, pI	36 kDa, 5.619
Gene length, protein length	1008 bp, 336 aa
Immediate neighbours	thiG, thiD
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU11700

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family:

• Paralogous protein(s): MoeB

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:

• Localization:

Database entries

• Structure: 1ZFN (from E. coli, 35% identity, 51% similarity) PubMed

• UniProt: O31619

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: tenA-tenI-thiO-thiS-thiG-thiF-thiD PubMed

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation:
  • repressed by thiamine (Thi-box) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • Thi-box: RNA switch PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Reviews

Christopher T Jurgenson, Tadhg P Begley, Steven E Ealick
The structural and biochemical foundations of thiamin biosynthesis.
Annu Rev Biochem: 2009, 78;569-603
[PubMed:19348578] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)