OpuAB

• Description: glycine betaine ABC transporter (permease)
  
  

Gene name	opuAB
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	glycine betaine ABC transporter (permease)
Function	compatible solute transport
MW, pI	30 kDa, 9.837
Gene length, protein length	846 bp, 282 aa
Immediate neighbours	opuAA, opuAC
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU02990

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: no entry

• SubtiList entry: [1]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family: ABC transmembrane type-1 domain (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:

• Localization: cell membrane (according to Swiss-Prot), membrane associated PubMed

Database entries

• Structure:

• Swiss prot entry: P46921

• KEGG entry: [2]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon:

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation:

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

Labs working on this gene/protein

Erhard Bremer, University of Marburg, Germany homepage

References

Hannes Hahne, Susanne Wolff, Michael Hecker, Dörte Becher
From complementarity to comprehensiveness--targeting the membrane proteome of growing Bacillus subtilis by divergent approaches.
Proteomics: 2008, 8(19);4123-36
[PubMed:18763711] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Carsten Horn, Erhard Bremer, Lutz Schmitt
Functional overexpression and in vitro re-association of OpuA, an osmotically regulated ABC-transport complex from Bacillus subtilis.
FEBS Lett: 2005, 579(25);5765-8
[PubMed:16225868] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

B Kempf, E Bremer
OpuA, an osmotically regulated binding protein-dependent transport system for the osmoprotectant glycine betaine in Bacillus subtilis.
J Biol Chem: 1995, 270(28);16701-13
[PubMed:7622480] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

1. Hahne et al. (2008) From complementarity to comprehensiveness - targeting the membrane proteome of growing Bacillus subtilis by divergent approaches. Proteomics 8: 4123-4136 PubMed
2. Kempf B, Bremer E. (1995) OpuA, an osmotically regulated binding protein-dependent transport system for the osmoprotectant glycine betaine in Bacillus subtilis. J Biol Chem. Jul 14;270(28): 16701-13. PubMed
3. Horn C, Bremer E, Schmitt L. (2005) Functional overexpression and in vitro re-association of OpuA, an osmotically regulated ABC-transport complex from Bacillus subtilis. FEBS Lett. Oct 24;579(25): 5765-8. PubMed
4. Author1, Author2 & Author3 (year) Title Journal volume: page-page. PubMed