ScoB

• Description: probable succinyl CoA:3-oxoacid CoA-transferase (subunit B)
  
  

Gene name	scoB
Synonyms	yxjE
Essential	no
Product	probable succinyl CoA:3-oxoacid CoA-transferase (subunit B)
Function	lipid metabolism
MW, pI	23 kDa, 4.893
Gene length, protein length	648 bp, 216 aa
Immediate neighbours	yxjF, scoA
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU38980

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

Categories containing this gene/protein

utilization of lipids, sporulation proteins

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: Succinyl-CoA + a 3-oxo acid = succinate + a 3-oxoacyl-CoA (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Protein family: 3-oxoacid CoA-transferase subunit B family (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s): YodR

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:

• Localization:

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: P42316

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number: 2.8.3.5

Expression and regulation

• Operon: yxjC-scoA-scoB-yxjF PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigE PubMed

• Regulation:
  • repressed by glucose (CcpA) PubMed
  • expressed early during sporulation in the mother cell (SigE) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • CcpA: transcription repression PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Lucy Stols, Min Zhou, William H Eschenfeldt, Cynthia Sanville Millard, James Abdullah, Frank R Collart, Youngchang Kim, Mark I Donnelly
New vectors for co-expression of proteins: structure of Bacillus subtilis ScoAB obtained by high-throughput protocols.
Protein Expr Purif: 2007, 53(2);396-403
[PubMed:17363272] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Juliane Ollinger, Kyung-Bok Song, Haike Antelmann, Michael Hecker, John D Helmann
Role of the Fur regulon in iron transport in Bacillus subtilis.
J Bacteriol: 2006, 188(10);3664-73
[PubMed:16672620] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Hans-Matti Blencke, Georg Homuth, Holger Ludwig, Ulrike Mäder, Michael Hecker, Jörg Stülke
Transcriptional profiling of gene expression in response to glucose in Bacillus subtilis: regulation of the central metabolic pathways.
Metab Eng: 2003, 5(2);133-49
[PubMed:12850135] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Patrick Eichenberger, Shane T Jensen, Erin M Conlon, Christiaan van Ooij, Jessica Silvaggi, José Eduardo González-Pastor, Masaya Fujita, Sigal Ben-Yehuda, Patrick Stragier, Jun S Liu, Richard Losick
The sigmaE regulon and the identification of additional sporulation genes in Bacillus subtilis.
J Mol Biol: 2003, 327(5);945-72
[PubMed:12662922] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Ken-Ichi Yoshida, Izumi Ishio, Eishi Nagakawa, Yoshiyuki Yamamoto, Mami Yamamoto, Yasutaro Fujita
Systematic study of gene expression and transcription organization in the gntZ-ywaA region of the Bacillus subtilis genome.
Microbiology (Reading): 2000, 146 ( Pt 3);573-579
[PubMed:10746760] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Y Miwa, A Nakata, A Ogiwara, M Yamamoto, Y Fujita
Evaluation and characterization of catabolite-responsive elements (cre) of Bacillus subtilis.
Nucleic Acids Res: 2000, 28(5);1206-10
[PubMed:10666464] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)