SrfAC

• Description: surfactin synthetase / competence
  
  

Gene name	srfAC
Synonyms	comL
Essential	no
Product	surfactin synthetase / competence
Function	antibiotic synthesis
Gene expression levels in SubtiExpress: srfAC
MW, pI	143 kDa, 4.97
Gene length, protein length	3822 bp, 1274 aa
Immediate neighbours	comS, srfAD
Sequences	Protein DNA DNA_with_flanks
Genetic context This image was kindly provided by SubtiList
Expression at a glance   PubMed

Categories containing this gene/protein

miscellaneous metabolic pathways, biosynthesis of antibacterial compounds, membrane proteins, phosphoproteins

This gene is a member of the following regulons

Abh regulon, CodY regulon, ComA regulon, PerR regulon, Spx regulon

The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU03510

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family: acyl carrier domain (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification: phosphorylation on Ser-1003 PubMed

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:

• Localization: cell membrane PubMed

Database entries

• Structure: 2VSQ

• UniProt: Q08787

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: srfAA-srfAB-comS-srfAC-srfAD PubMed

• Expression browser: srfAC PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigA PubMed

• Regulation:
  • repressed during growth in the presence of branched chain amino acids (CodY) PubMed
  • repressed during hydrogen peroxide stress (PerR) PubMed
  • expressed at high cell density (ComA) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • CodY: transcription repression PubMed
  • ComA: transcription activation PubMed
  • PerR: transcription activation PubMed
  • Spx: transcription repression PubMed
  • Abh: transcription repressionPubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody: