Maa

• Description: maltose O-acetyltransferase
  
  

Gene name	maa
Synonyms	yyaI
Essential	no
Product	maltose O-acetyltransferase
Function	maltose and maltodextrin utilization
Gene expression levels in SubtiExpress: maa
MW, pI	20 kDa, 6.162
Gene length, protein length	552 bp, 184 aa
Immediate neighbours	yyaJ, yyaH
Sequences	Protein DNA DNA_with_flanks
Genetic context This image was kindly provided by SubtiList
Expression at a glance   PubMed

Categories containing this gene/protein

utilization of specific carbon sources

The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU40850

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: no entry

• SubtiList entry: [1]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: Acetyl-CoA + maltose = CoA + acetyl-maltose (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Protein family: transferase hexapeptide repeat family (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

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Database entries

• Structure: 2IC7 (from Geobacillus kaustophilus)

• UniProt: P37515

• KEGG entry: [2]

• E.C. number: 2.3.1.79

Expression and regulation

• Operon:

• Expression browser: maa PubMed

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Biological materials

• Mutant:

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• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

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References

Takashi Inaoka, Takenori Satomura, Yasutaro Fujita, Kozo Ochi
Novel gene regulation mediated by overproduction of secondary metabolite neotrehalosadiamine in Bacillus subtilis.
FEMS Microbiol Lett: 2009, 291(2);151-6
[PubMed:19087206] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)