AcoL

• Description: acetoin dehydrogenase E3 component (dihydrolipoamide dehydrogenase)
  
  

Gene name	acoL
Synonyms	yfjH
Essential	no
Product	acetoin dehydrogenase E3 component (dihydrolipoamide dehydrogenase)
Function	acetoin utilization
MW, pI	48 kDa, 5.273
Gene length, protein length	1374 bp, 458 aa
Immediate neighbours	acoC, acoR
Gene sequence (+200bp)	Protein sequence
Genetic context This image was kindly provided by SubtiList

The gene

Basic information

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Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

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• KEGG entry: [3]

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Expression and regulation

• Operon: acoA-acoB-acoC-acoL PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigL PubMed

• Regulation: repressed by glucose (CcpA) , induced by acetoin (AcoR) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism: AcoR: transcription activation (interaction with SigL-containing RNA polymerase) PubMed

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Biological materials

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Labs working on this gene/protein

Michel Debarbouille, Pasteur Institute, Paris, France Homepage

References

1. Blencke et al. (2003) Transcriptional profiling of gene expression in response to glucose in Bacillus subtilis: regulation of the central metabolic pathways. Metab Eng. 5: 133-149
2. Ali, N. O., Bignon, J., Rapoport, G., and Débarbouillé, M. (2001) Regulation of the acetoin catabolic pathway is controlled by sigma L in Bacillus subtilis. J. Bacteriol. 183, 2497-2504. PubMed
3. Author1, Author2 & Author3 (year) Title Journal volume: page-page. PubMed