BesA

• Description: trilactone hydrolase, catalyses ferri-bacillibactin hydrolysis leading to cytosolic iron release
  
  

Gene name	besA
Synonyms	yuiI
Essential	no
Product	trilactone hydrolase
Function	iron acquisition
MW, pI	35 kDa, 8.203
Gene length, protein length	942 bp, 314 aa
Immediate neighbours	dhbA, yuiH
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
Genetic context This image was kindly provided by SubtiList

Categories containing this gene/protein

acquisition of iron, iron metabolism

This gene is a member of the following regulons

AbrB regulon, Fur regulon

The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU32010

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family:

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

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• Interactions:

• Localization:

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: O32102

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: besA PubMed

• Sigma factor:

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

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • Fur: transcription repression PubMed
  • AbrB: transcription repression PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Additional publications: PubMed