IolI

• Description: inosose isomerase, converts 2KMI to 1-keto-D-chiro-inositol
  
  

Gene name	iolI
Synonyms	yxdH
Essential	no
Product	inosose isomerase, converts 2KMI to 1-keto-D-chiro-inositol
Function	myo-inositol catabolism
MW, pI	31 kDa, 4.661
Gene length, protein length	834 bp, 278 aa
Immediate neighbours	iolJ, iolH
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag:

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: 2,4,6/3,5-pentahydroxycyclohexanone = 2,3,5/4,6-pentahydroxycyclohexanone (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Protein family: iolI 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:

Database entries

• Structure: 1L60

• Swiss prot entry: P42419

• KEGG entry: BSU39680

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: iolA-iolB-iolC-iolD-iolE-iolF-iolG-iolH-iolJ PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigA PubMed

• Regulation:
  • repressed by glucose (CcpA) PubMed
  • induced by inositol (IolR) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • CcpA: transcription repression PubMed
  • IolR: transcription repression PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

Labs working on this gene/protein

• Yasutaro Fujita, University of Fukuyama, Japan
• Ken-ichi Yoshida, Kobe University, Japan

References

1. Yoshida K, Yamaguchi M, Morinaga T, Kinehara M, Ikeuchi M, Ashida H, Fujita Y. (2008) myo-Inositol catabolism in Bacillus subtilis. J Biol Chem. Apr 18;283(16): 10415-24. PubMed