YcgT

• Description: similar to thioredoxin reductase
  
  

Gene name	ycgT
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	thioredoxin reductase (NADPH)
Function	unknown
MW, pI	36 kDa, 5.61
Gene length, protein length	1008 bp, 336 aa
Immediate neighbours	ycgS, nasF
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU03270

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: 2 reduced ferredoxin + NADP⁺ + H⁺ = 2 oxidized ferredoxin + NADPH (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Protein family: ferredoxin--NADP reductase type 2 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:

• UniProt: O31475

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: ycgT (according to DBTBS)

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation: induced under conditions of iron starvation (Fur) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism: Fur: transcription repression PubMed

• Additional information: the mRNA is very stable (half-life > 15 min) PubMed

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody: