DhbC

• Description: isochorismate synthase
  
  

Gene name	dhbC
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	isochorismate synthase
Function	siderophore biosynthesis
MW, pI	43 kDa, 5.168
Gene length, protein length	1194 bp, 398 aa
Immediate neighbours	dhbE, dhbA
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU31990

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: Chorismate = isochorismate (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Protein family: isochorismate synthase family (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification: phosphorylation on Ser-271 PubMed

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:

• Localization:

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: P45744

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number: 5.4.4.2

Expression and regulation

• Operon: dhbA-dhbC-dhbE-dhbB-dhbF PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigA PubMed

• Regulation:
  • induced by iron starvation (Fur) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • Fur: transcription repression PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Boris Macek, Ivan Mijakovic, Jesper V Olsen, Florian Gnad, Chanchal Kumar, Peter R Jensen, Matthias Mann
The serine/threonine/tyrosine phosphoproteome of the model bacterium Bacillus subtilis.
Mol Cell Proteomics: 2007, 6(4);697-707
[PubMed:17218307] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Noel Baichoo, Tao Wang, Rick Ye, John D Helmann
Global analysis of the Bacillus subtilis Fur regulon and the iron starvation stimulon.
Mol Microbiol: 2002, 45(6);1613-29
[PubMed:12354229] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Tamara Hoffmann, Alexandra Schütz, Margot Brosius, Andrea Völker, Uwe Völker, Erhard Bremer
High-salinity-induced iron limitation in Bacillus subtilis.
J Bacteriol: 2002, 184(3);718-27
[PubMed:11790741] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

B M Rowland, T H Grossman, M S Osburne, H W Taber
Sequence and genetic organization of a Bacillus subtilis operon encoding 2,3-dihydroxybenzoate biosynthetic enzymes.
Gene: 1996, 178(1-2);119-23
[PubMed:8921902] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

B M Rowland, H W Taber
Duplicate isochorismate synthase genes of Bacillus subtilis: regulation and involvement in the biosyntheses of menaquinone and 2,3-dihydroxybenzoate.
J Bacteriol: 1996, 178(3);854-61
[PubMed:8550523] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

R Adams, W Schumann
Cloning and mapping of the Bacillus subtilis locus homologous to Escherichia coli ent genes.
Gene: 1993, 133(1);119-21
[PubMed:8224884] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)