DhbA

• Description: 2,3-dihydro-2,3-dihydroxybenzoate dehydrogenase
  
  

Gene name	dhbA
Synonyms	entA
Essential	no
Product	2,3-dihydro-2,3-dihydroxybenzoate dehydrogenase
Function	biosynthesis of the siderophore bacillibactin
MW, pI	27 kDa, 5.311
Gene length, protein length	783 bp, 261 aa
Immediate neighbours	dhbC, besA
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU32000

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: 2,3-dihydro-2,3-dihydroxybenzoate + NAD⁺ = 2,3-dihydroxybenzoate + NADH (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Protein family: short-chain dehydrogenases/reductases (SDR) family (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:

• Localization: cytoplasm (according to Swiss-Prot)

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: P39071

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number: 1.3.1.28

Expression and regulation

• Operon: dhbA-dhbC-dhbE-dhbB-dhbF PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigA PubMed

• Regulation:
  • induced by iron starvation (Fur) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • Fur: transcription repression PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody: