DhbA

• Description: 2,3-dihydro-2,3-dihydroxybenzoate dehydrogenase
  
  

Gene name	dhbA
Synonyms	entA
Essential	no
Product	2,3-dihydro-2,3-dihydroxybenzoate dehydrogenase
Function	biosynthesis of the siderophore bacillibactin
Gene expression levels in SubtiExpress: dhbA
Metabolic function and regulation of this protein in SubtiPathways: DhbA
MW, pI	27 kDa, 5.311
Gene length, protein length	783 bp, 261 aa
Immediate neighbours	dhbC, besA
Sequences	Protein DNA DNA_with_flanks
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Expression at a glance   PubMed

Categories containing this gene/protein

acquisition of iron, iron metabolism

This gene is a member of the following regulons

AbrB regulon, Fur regulon

The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU32000

Database entries

• BsubCyc: BSU32000

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: 2,3-dihydro-2,3-dihydroxybenzoate + NAD⁺ = 2,3-dihydroxybenzoate + NADH (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Protein family: short-chain dehydrogenases/reductases (SDR) 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

• BsubCyc: BSU32000

• Structure:

• UniProt: P39071

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number: 1.3.1.28

Expression and regulation

• Operon: dhbA-dhbC-dhbE-dhbB-dhbF PubMed

• Expression browser: dhbA PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigA PubMed

• Regulation:
  • induced by iron starvation (Fur) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • Fur: transcription repression PubMed
  • AbrB: transcription repression PubMed

• Additional information:
  • The mRNA has a long 5' leader region. This may indicate RNA-based regulation PubMed
  • the amount of the mRNA is substantially decreased upon depletion of RNase Y PubMed

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody: