YkgB

• Description: putative 6-phosphogluconolactonase, general stress protein
  
  

Gene name	ykgB
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	putative 6-phosphogluconolactonase
Function	pentose phosphate pathway
MW, pI	38 kDa, 5.154
Gene length, protein length	1047 bp, 349 aa
Immediate neighbours	ykfD, ykgA
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU13010

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

Categories containing this gene/protein

general stress proteins (controlled by SigB)

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: the corresponding protein of E. coli is the 6-phosphogluconolactonase PubMed

• Protein family: cycloisomerase 2 family (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:

• UniProt: O34499

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number: 3.1.1.31

Expression and regulation

• Operon: ykgA-ykgB PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigB PubMed

• Regulation:
  • induced by stress (SigB) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Lynn C Thomason, Donald L Court, Atin R Datta, Rita Khanna, Judah L Rosner
Identification of the Escherichia coli K-12 ybhE gene as pgl, encoding 6-phosphogluconolactonase.
J Bacteriol: 2004, 186(24);8248-53
[PubMed:15576773] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

A Petersohn, J Bernhardt, U Gerth, D Höper, T Koburger, U Völker, M Hecker
Identification of sigma(B)-dependent genes in Bacillus subtilis using a promoter consensus-directed search and oligonucleotide hybridization.
J Bacteriol: 1999, 181(18);5718-24
[PubMed:10482513] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)