RpoE

• Description: RNA polymerase delta subunit
  
  

Gene name	rpoE
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	RNA polymerase delta subunit
Function	transcription
Metabolic function and regulation of this protein in SubtiPathways: Fatty acid degradation
MW, pI	20 kDa, 3.654
Gene length, protein length	519 bp, 173 aa
Immediate neighbours	pyrG, acdA
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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Categories containing this gene/protein

transcription

This gene is a member of the following regulons

FadR regulon

The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU37160

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family: rpoE family (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions: closely associated to RNA polymerase (RpoA(2)-RpoB-RpoC) PubMed

• Localization:closely associated with RNA polymerase involved in transcribing both mRNA and rRNA operons PubMed

Database entries

• Structure: 2KRC PubMed

• UniProt: P12464

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number: 2.7.7.6

Expression and regulation

• Operon:
  • fadF-acdA-rpoE PubMed
  • rpoE PubMed

• Sigma factor:
  • fadF: SigA PubMed
  • rpoE: SigA PubMed

• Regulation:
  • fadF: repressed in the absence of long-chain fatty acids (FadR) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • FadR: transcription repression PubMed

• Additional information:
  • present at equimolar levels with RNA polymerase PubMed

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

Labs working on this gene/protein

Arthur Aronson, Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA homepage

References

Additional publications: PubMed