YabJ

• Description: required for activity of PurR
  
  

Gene name	yabJ
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	unknown
Function	regulation of purine biosynthesis
MW, pI	13 kDa, 5.134
Gene length, protein length	375 bp, 125 aa
Immediate neighbours	purR, spoVG
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU00480

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family: Ref.3 (according to Swiss-Prot) YjgF family

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions: forms a trimer PubMed

• Localization: cytoplasm (according to Swiss-Prot)

Database entries

• Structure: 1QD9, 1QD9 NCBI PubMed

• Swiss prot entry: P37552

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: purR-yabJ PubMed

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation: negative autoregulation PubMed
  • repressed in the presence of purine nucleotides (PurR) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism: repression by PurR PubMed
  • PurR: transcription repression PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

1. Weng et al. (1995) Identification of the Bacillus subtilis pur operon repressor. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 92: 7455-7459. PubMed
2. Sinha et al. (1999) Crystal structure of Bacillus subtilis YabJ, a purine regulatory protein and member of the highly conserved YjgF family.Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 96: 13074-13079. PubMed
3. Author1, Author2 & Author3 (year) Title Journal volume: page-page. PubMed