YitJ

• Description: methionine synthase
  
  

Gene name	yitJ
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	methionine synthase
Function	methionine biosynthesis
Gene expression levels in SubtiExpress: yitJ
Metabolic function and regulation of this protein in SubtiPathways: yitJ
MW, pI	67 kDa, 5.336
Gene length, protein length	1836 bp, 612 aa
Immediate neighbours	yitI, yitK
Sequences	Protein DNA DNA_with_flanks
Genetic context This image was kindly provided by SubtiList
Expression at a glance   PubMed

Categories containing this gene/protein

membrane proteins, biosynthesis/ acquisition of amino acids

This gene is a member of the following regulons

S-box

The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU11010

Database entries

• BsubCyc: BSU11010

• DBTBS entry: no entry

• SubtiList entry: [1]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family:

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:

• Localization:
  • membrane associated PubMed

Database entries

• BsubCyc: BSU11010

• Structure:

• UniProt: O06745

• KEGG entry: [2]

• E.C. number: 2.1.1.13

Expression and regulation

• Operon: yitJ-yitI-yitH PubMed

• Expression browser: yitJ PubMed

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation:
  • induced by methionine starvation (S-box) PubMed
  • repressed by casamino acids PubMed

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

• Additional information:
  • number of protein molecules per cell (minimal medium with glucose and ammonium): 894 PubMed

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Other publications

Germán Plata, Tobias Fuhrer, Tzu-Lin Hsiao, Uwe Sauer, Dennis Vitkup
Global probabilistic annotation of metabolic networks enables enzyme discovery.
Nat Chem Biol: 2012, 8(10);848-54
[PubMed:22960854] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Karen Shahbabian, Ailar Jamalli, Léna Zig, Harald Putzer
RNase Y, a novel endoribonuclease, initiates riboswitch turnover in Bacillus subtilis.
EMBO J: 2009, 28(22);3523-33
[PubMed:19779461] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Hannes Hahne, Susanne Wolff, Michael Hecker, Dörte Becher
From complementarity to comprehensiveness--targeting the membrane proteome of growing Bacillus subtilis by divergent approaches.
Proteomics: 2008, 8(19);4123-36
[PubMed:18763711] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I 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)