AcsA

• Description: acetyl-CoA synthetase
  
  

Gene name	acsA
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	acetyl-CoA synthetase)
Function	utilization of acetate, fatty acids
Metabolic function and regulation of this protein in SubtiPathways: Central C-metabolism
MW, pI	64 kDa, 5.547
Gene length, protein length	1716 bp, 572 aa
Immediate neighbours	tyrS, acuA
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU29680

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: ATP + acetate + CoA = AMP + diphosphate + acetyl-CoA (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Protein family: ATP-dependent AMP-binding enzyme family (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification: acetylated on Lys-549 by AcuA, this results in inactivation PubMed, deacetylated by SrtN and AcuC deacetylates (and thereby activates) AcsA PubMed

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:

• Localization:

Database entries

• Structure:

• Swiss prot entry: P39062

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number: 6.2.1.1

Expression and regulation

• Operon: acsA

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation: repressed by glucose (4.5-fold) (CcpA) PubMed, repressed by CodY PubMed
  • repressed during growth in the presence of branched chain amino acids (CodY) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism: CodY: transcription repression PubMed1 PubMed2, CcpA: transcription repression
  • CodY: transcription repression PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

1. Author1, Author2 & Author3 (year) Title Journal volume: page-page. PubMed