MhqA

• Description: hydroquinone-specific dioxygenase, confers resistence to methyl-hydroxyquinone
  
  

Gene name	mhqA
Synonyms	ykcA
Essential	no
Product	hydroquinone-specific dioxygenase
Function	resistence to methyl-hydroxyquinone
MW, pI	35 kDa, 5.404
Gene length, protein length	948 bp, 316 aa
Immediate neighbours	steT, ykcB
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU12870

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family: extradiol ring-cleavage dioxygenase 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: O34689

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon:

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation:

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody: