FabHA

• Description: beta-ketoacyl-acyl carrier protein synthase III
  
  

Gene name	fabHA
Synonyms	yjaX
Essential	no
Product	beta-ketoacyl-acyl carrier protein synthase III
Function	fatty acid biosynthesis
MW, pI	33 kDa, 5.045
Gene length, protein length	936 bp, 312 aa
Immediate neighbours	yjzB, fabF
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU11330

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: Acetyl-CoA + malonyl-[acyl-carrier-protein] = acetoacyl-[acyl-carrier-protein] + CoA + CO₂ (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Protein family: fabH family (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s): FabHB, one of the two proteins has to be present for viability PubMed

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: O34746

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number: 2.3.1.180, 2.3.1.41

Expression and regulation

• Operon: fabHA-fabF PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigA PubMed

• Regulation:
  • expressed when the cells experience a lack of malonyl-CoA (FapR) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • FapR: transcription repression PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Reviews

Yasutaro Fujita, Hiroshi Matsuoka, Kazutake Hirooka
Regulation of fatty acid metabolism in bacteria.
Mol Microbiol: 2007, 66(4);829-39
[PubMed:17919287] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Stephen W White, Jie Zheng, Yong-Mei Zhang, Rock
The structural biology of type II fatty acid biosynthesis.
Annu Rev Biochem: 2005, 74;791-831
[PubMed:15952903] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Original Publications

Helena B Thomaides, Ella J Davison, Lisa Burston, Hazel Johnson, David R Brown, Alison C Hunt, Jeffery Errington, Lloyd Czaplewski
Essential bacterial functions encoded by gene pairs.
J Bacteriol: 2007, 189(2);591-602
[PubMed:17114254] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Gustavo E Schujman, Luciana Paoletti, Alan D Grossman, Diego de Mendoza
FapR, a bacterial transcription factor involved in global regulation of membrane lipid biosynthesis.
Dev Cell: 2003, 4(5);663-72
[PubMed:12737802] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

K H Choi, R J Heath, C O Rock
beta-ketoacyl-acyl carrier protein synthase III (FabH) is a determining factor in branched-chain fatty acid biosynthesis.
J Bacteriol: 2000, 182(2);365-70
[PubMed:10629181] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)