Nos

• Description: nitric-oxide synthase
  
  

Gene name	nos
Synonyms	yflM
Essential	no
Product	nitric-oxide synthase
Function	production of nitric oxide
MW, pI	38 kDa, 5.528
Gene length, protein length	1008 bp, 336 aa
Immediate neighbours	yflN, yflL
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU07630

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

Categories containing this gene/protein

miscellaneous metabolic pathways, biosynthesis of antibacterial compounds

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family: Bacterial NOS oxygenase subfamily (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s): heme PubMed

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:

• Localization:

Database entries

• Structure: 2AMO (loose dimer), 1M7V (bound to tetrahydrofolate and arginine)

• UniProt: O34453

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: nos-yflK (according to DBTBS)

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation:

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information: Note that the gene yflL is located between nos and yflK, but on the opposite strand.

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody: