FosB

• Description: bacillithiol-S-transferase; confers resistence against antimicrobial compounds from B. amyloliquefaciens
  
  

Gene name	fosB
Synonyms	yndN
Essential	no
Product	fosfomycin resistance protein
Function	confers resistence against antimicrobial compounds from B. amyloliquefaciens
MW, pI	17 kDa, 6.137
Gene length, protein length	432 bp, 144 aa
Immediate neighbours	yndM, lexA
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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Categories containing this gene/protein

cell envelope stress proteins (controlled by SigM, V, W, X, Y), resistance against toxins/ antibiotics

This gene is a member of the following regulons

SigW regulon

The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU17840

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family: FosB 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: cytoplasm (according to Swiss-Prot)

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: O31817

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: fosB PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigW PubMed

• Regulation:
  • expressed under stress conditions (SigW) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information:
  • A ncRNA is predicted between fosB and lexA PubMed

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Additional publications: PubMed