YvmC

• Description: cyclodipeptide synthase
  
  

Gene name	yvmC
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	cyclodipeptide synthase
Function	biosynthesis of the extracellular iron chelate pulcherrimin
MW, pI	28 kDa, 6.612
Gene length, protein length	744 bp, 248 aa
Immediate neighbours	cypX, yvmB
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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Categories containing this gene/protein

acquisition of iron, iron metabolism

The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU35070

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: no entry

• SubtiList entry: [1]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:
  • synthesis of the cyclic dipeptide cyclo-L-leucyl-L-leucyl with the corresponding charged tRNAs as substrates in an ATP-dependent manner PubMed

• Protein family:

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:

• Localization:

Database entries

• Structure: 3S7T (from B. licheniformis, 70% identity, 86% similarity) PubMed

• UniProt: O34351

• KEGG entry: [2]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: yvmC-cypX Reference

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation:

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • AbrB: transcription repression PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Additional publications: PubMed

Muriel Gondry, Ludovic Sauguet, Pascal Belin, Robert Thai, Rachel Amouroux, Carine Tellier, Karine Tuphile, Mickaël Jacquet, Sandrine Braud, Marie Courçon, Cédric Masson, Steven Dubois, Sylvie Lautru, Alain Lecoq, Shin-ichi Hashimoto, Roger Genet, Jean-Luc Pernodet
Cyclodipeptide synthases are a family of tRNA-dependent peptide bond-forming enzymes.
Nat Chem Biol: 2009, 5(6);414-20
[PubMed:19430487] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

R L Uffen, E Canale-Parola
Synthesis of pulcherriminic acid by Bacillus subtilis.
J Bacteriol: 1972, 111(1);86-93
[PubMed:4204912] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

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