MelA

• Description: alpha-galactosidase
  
  

Gene name	melA
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	alpha-galactosidase
Function	melibiose utilization
Gene expression levels in SubtiExpress: melA
Metabolic function and regulation of this protein in SubtiPathways: Sugar catabolism
MW, pI	49 kDa, 5.84
Gene length, protein length	1296 bp, 432 aa
Immediate neighbours	amyC, ytwF
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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Expression at a glance   PubMed

Categories containing this gene/protein

utilization of specific carbon sources

The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU30300

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: Hydrolysis of terminal, non-reducing alpha-D-galactose residues in alpha-D-galactosides, including galactose oligosaccharides, galactomannans and galactohydrolase (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Protein family: glycosyl hydrolase 4 family (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

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• Modification:

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Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: O34645

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number: 3.2.1.22

Expression and regulation

• Operon: melA PubMed

• Expression browser: melA PubMed

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• Regulation:

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• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody: