AppB

• Description: oligopeptide ABC transporter (permease)
  
  

Gene name	appB
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	oligopeptide ABC transporter (permease))
Function	uptake of oligopeptides
MW, pI	35 kDa, 9.772
Gene length, protein length	951 bp, 317 aa
Immediate neighbours	appA, appC
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU11390

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family: ABC transmembrane type-1 domain (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:

• Localization: cell membrane (according to Swiss-Prot)

Database entries

• Structure:

• Swiss prot entry: P42062

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: appD-appF-appA-appB-appC

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation: repressed by casamino acids PubMed, repressed by CodY PubMed
  • repressed during exponential growth (ScoC) PubMed
  • repressed during growth in the presence of branched chain amino acids (CodY) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism: CodY: transcription repression PubMed
  • ScoC: transcription repression PubMed
  • CodY: transcription repression PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

1. Mäder et al. (2002) Transcriptome and Proteome Analysis of Bacillus subtilis Gene Expression Modulated by Amino Acid Availability. J. Bacteriol 184: 1844288-4295 PubMed
2. Author1, Author2 & Author3 (year) Title Journal volume: page-page. PubMed