YfmC

• Description: iron/ citrate ABC transporter (binding protein)
  
  

Gene name	yfmC
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	iron/ citrate ABC transporter (binding protein)
Function	iron uptake
MW, pI	34 kDa, 7.879
Gene length, protein length	945 bp, 315 aa
Immediate neighbours	yfmD, yfmB
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU07520

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: no entry

• SubtiList entry: [1]

Categories containing this gene/protein

ABC transporters, acquisition of iron, iron metabolism, membrane proteins

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family: Fe/B12 periplasmic-binding domain (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions: YfmF-(YfmD-YfmE)-(YfmC-YhfQ) PubMed

• Localization:
  • associated to the membrane (via YfmD-YfmE) PubMed
  • extracellular (signal peptide) PubMed, lipid modification as retention signal

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: O34348

• KEGG entry: [2]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: yfmC-yfmD-yfmE-yfmF PubMed

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation:
  • induced upon iron starvation (Fur) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • Fur: transcription repression PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody: