SucD

• Description: succinyl-CoA synthetase (alpha subunit)
  
  

Gene name	sucD
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	succinyl-CoA synthetase (alpha subunit)
Function	TCA cycle
Metabolic function and regulation of this protein in SubtiPathways: Central C-metabolism
MW, pI	31 kDa, 5.587
Gene length, protein length	900 bp, 300 aa
Immediate neighbours	sucC, dprA
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU16100

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: ATP + succinate + CoA = ADP + phosphate + succinyl-CoA (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Protein family: succinate/malate CoA ligase alpha subunit family (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information: Reversible Michaelis-Menten FEBS Letters

• Domains:

• Modification: phosphorylation on (Ser-19 OR Thr-20) PubMed

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:
  • Inhibited by 2-oxoglutarate, ATP and NADH FEBS Letters
  • GTP is not accepted by the enzyme FEBS Letters

• Interactions:

• Localization:

Database entries

• Structure: 1JKJ (E. coli)

• UniProt: P80865

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number: 6.2.1.5

Additional information

The enzyme is a dimer FEBS Letters

Expression and regulation

• Operon: sucC-sucD PubMed

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation: repressed by glucose (2.4-fold) (CcpA) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism: CcpA: transcription repression PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant: GP720 (spc), available in Stülke lab

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody: