Zur

• Description: transcriptional repressor, regulates zinc homeostasis
  
  

Gene name	zur
Synonyms	yqfV
Essential	no
Product	transcriptional repressor
Function	regulation of zinc homeostasis (yciC, ycdHI-yceA)
Regulatory function of this protein in SubtiPathways: Stress
MW, pI	16 kDa, 4.856
Gene length, protein length	435 bp, 145 aa
Immediate neighbours	yqfW, yqfU
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU25100

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: no entry

• SubtiList entry: [1]

Categories containing this gene/protein

trace metal homeostasis (Cu, Zn, Ni, Mn, Mo), transcription factors and their control, phosphoproteins

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

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

• Paralogous protein(s): PerR, Fur

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification: phosphorylated on ser/ thr/ tyr PubMed

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:

• Localization:

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: P54479

• KEGG entry: [2]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon:

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation:

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

Labs working on this gene/protein

John Helmann, Cornell University, USA Homepage