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  • Description: ketol-acid reductoisomerase (2,3-dihydroxy-3-methylbutanoate, 2-acetolactate)

Gene name ilvC
Synonyms
Essential no
Product ketol-acid reductoisomerase (2,3-dihydroxy-3-methylbutanoate, 2-acetolactate)
Function biosynthesis of branched-chain amino acids
MW, pI 37 kDa, 5.37
Gene length, protein length 1026 bp, 342 aa
Immediate neighbours leuA, ilvH
Get the DNA and protein sequences
(Barbe et al., 2009)
Genetic context
IlvC context.gif
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The gene

Basic information

  • Locus tag: BSU28290

Phenotypes of a mutant

Database entries

  • DBTBS entry: [1]
  • SubtiList entry: [2]

Additional information

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

  • Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: (R)-2,3-dihydroxy-3-methylbutanoate + NADP+ = (S)-2-hydroxy-2-methyl-3-oxobutanoate + NADPH (according to Swiss-Prot)
  • Protein family: ketol-acid reductoisomerase family (according to Swiss-Prot)
  • Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

  • Kinetic information:
  • Domains:
  • Modification:
  • Cofactor(s):
  • Effectors of protein activity:
  • Interactions:
  • Localization:

Database entries

  • Structure:
  • KEGG entry: [3]

Additional information

Expression and regulation

  • Regulation: repressed by casamino acids PubMed , expressed in the absence of branched-chain amino acids (BCAA), expression is stimulated in the presence of glucose PubMed, repressed by CodY PubMed
  • Regulatory mechanism: CodY: transcription repression PubMed, glucose regulation: CcpA PubMed, repression by BCAA: tRNA-controlled RNA switch (T-box) that mediates termination/antitermination
  • Additional information:

Biological materials

  • Mutant:
  • Expression vector:
  • lacZ fusion:
  • GFP fusion:
  • two-hybrid system:
  • Antibody:

Labs working on this gene/protein

Your additional remarks

References

Ulrike Mäder, Georg Homuth, Christian Scharf, Knut Büttner, Rüdiger Bode, Michael Hecker
Transcriptome and proteome analysis of Bacillus subtilis gene expression modulated by amino acid availability.
J Bacteriol: 2002, 184(15);4288-95
[PubMed:12107147] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

  1. Mäder et al. (2002) Transcriptome and Proteome Analysis of Bacillus subtilis Gene Expression Modulated by Amino Acid Availability. J. Bacteriol 184: 1844288-4295 PubMed
  2. Author1, Author2 & Author3 (year) Title Journal volume: page-page. PubMed