ResA

• Description: extracytoplasmic thioredoxin, cytochrome c biogenesis, reduces disulfide bonds in apo-cytochrome prior to the attachment of heme
  
  

Gene name	resA
Synonyms	ypxA
Essential	yes PubMed
Product	extracytoplasmic thioredoxin
Function	cytochrome c biogenesis
MW, pI	20 kDa, 8.37
Gene length, protein length	543 bp, 181 aa
Immediate neighbours	resB, rluB
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU23150

Phenotypes of a mutant

essential PubMed

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family: ResA subfamily (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:

• Localization:

Database entries

• Structure: 3C73

• Swiss prot entry: P35160

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: resA-resB-resC-resD-resE

• Sigma factor: SigA

• Regulation:
  • expressed under anaerobic conditions (ResD) PubMed
  • expressed under conditions of phosphate limitation (PhoP) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • ResD: transcription activation PubMed
  • PhoP: transcription activation PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Christopher T C Hodson, Allison Lewin, Lars Hederstedt, Nick E Le Brun
The active-site cysteinyls and hydrophobic cavity residues of ResA are important for cytochrome c maturation in Bacillus subtilis.
J Bacteriol: 2008, 190(13);4697-705
[PubMed:18456809] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Allison Lewin, Allister Crow, Christopher T C Hodson, Lars Hederstedt, Nick E Le Brun
Effects of substitutions in the CXXC active-site motif of the extracytoplasmic thioredoxin ResA.
Biochem J: 2008, 414(1);81-91
[PubMed:18422485] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Lýğur S Erlendsson, Richard M Acheson, Lars Hederstedt, Nick E Le Brun
Bacillus subtilis ResA is a thiol-disulfide oxidoreductase involved in cytochrome c synthesis.
J Biol Chem: 2003, 278(20);17852-8
[PubMed:12637552] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

M M Nakano, Y Zhu
Involvement of ResE phosphatase activity in down-regulation of ResD-controlled genes in Bacillus subtilis during aerobic growth.
J Bacteriol: 2001, 183(6);1938-44
[PubMed:11222591] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

S M Birkey, W Liu, X Zhang, M F Duggan, F M Hulett
Pho signal transduction network reveals direct transcriptional regulation of one two-component system by another two-component regulator: Bacillus subtilis PhoP directly regulates production of ResD.
Mol Microbiol: 1998, 30(5);943-53
[PubMed:9988472] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

G Sun, E Sharkova, R Chesnut, S Birkey, M F Duggan, A Sorokin, P Pujic, S D Ehrlich, F M Hulett
Regulators of aerobic and anaerobic respiration in Bacillus subtilis.
J Bacteriol: 1996, 178(5);1374-85
[PubMed:8631715] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

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