GapB

• Description: glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase, NADP-dependent, gluconeogenic enzyme
  
  

Gene name	gapB
Synonyms	ppc
Essential	no
Product	glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase 2
Function	anabolic enzyme in gluconeogenesis
Metabolic function and regulation of this protein in SubtiPathways: Cys, Met & Sulfate assimilation, Central C-metabolism
MW, pI	37,3 kDa, 6.47
Gene length, protein length	1020 bp, 340 amino acids
Immediate neighbours	speD, ytcD
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU29020

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: D-glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate + phosphate + NAD(P)⁺ = 3-phospho-D-glyceroyl phosphate + NAD(P)H (according to Swiss-Prot)
  • This reaction is part of the gluconeogenesis

• Protein family: glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase family (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s): GapA

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information: Michaelis-Menten PubMed

• Domains:
  • Nucleotid bindinge domain (12-13)
  • 2x Glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate binding domain (151-153) & (210-211)

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s): NADP (preferentially) and NAD PubMed

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:

• Localization: Cytoplasm (Homogeneous) PubMed

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: O34425

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number: 1.2.1.59

Expression and regulation

• Operon: gapB-speD PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigA PubMed

• Regulation:
  • repressed in the presence of glucose (70-fold) (CcpN) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • CcpN: transcription repression PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:
  • GP701 (gapB::spec), available in Stülke lab

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• Antibody:

Labs working on this gene/protein

Stephane Aymerich, Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, INRA Paris-Grignon, France

References

Simon Tännler, Eliane Fischer, Dominique Le Coq, Thierry Doan, Emmanuel Jamet, Uwe Sauer, Stéphane Aymerich
CcpN controls central carbon fluxes in Bacillus subtilis.
J Bacteriol: 2008, 190(18);6178-87
[PubMed:18586936] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

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)

Jean-Christophe Meile, Ling Juan Wu, S Dusko Ehrlich, Jeff Errington, Philippe Noirot
Systematic localisation of proteins fused to the green fluorescent protein in Bacillus subtilis: identification of new proteins at the DNA replication factory.
Proteomics: 2006, 6(7);2135-46
[PubMed:16479537] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Pascale Servant, Dominique Le Coq, Stéphane Aymerich
CcpN (YqzB), a novel regulator for CcpA-independent catabolite repression of Bacillus subtilis gluconeogenic genes.
Mol Microbiol: 2005, 55(5);1435-51
[PubMed:15720552] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

A Sekowska, J Y Coppée, J P Le Caer, I Martin-Verstraete, A Danchin
S-adenosylmethionine decarboxylase of Bacillus subtilis is closely related to archaebacterial counterparts.
Mol Microbiol: 2000, 36(5);1135-47
[PubMed:10844697] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

S Fillinger, S Boschi-Muller, S Azza, E Dervyn, G Branlant, S Aymerich
Two glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenases with opposite physiological roles in a nonphotosynthetic bacterium.
J Biol Chem: 2000, 275(19);14031-7
[PubMed:10799476] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)