MtnK

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  • Description: 5-methylthioribose kinase

Gene name mtnK
Synonyms ykrT
Essential no
Product 5-methylthioribose kinase
Function methionine salvage
MW, pI 45 kDa, 4.856
Gene length, protein length 1197 bp, 399 aa
Immediate neighbours mtnS, mtnU
Get the DNA and protein sequences
(Barbe et al., 2009)
Genetic context
YkrT context.gif
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The gene

Basic information

  • Locus tag: BSU13560

Phenotypes of a mutant

Database entries

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

Additional information

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

  • Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: ATP + S-methyl-5-thio-D-ribose = ADP + S-methyl-5-thio-alpha-D-ribose 1-phosphate (according to Swiss-Prot)
  • Protein family: methylthioribose kinase 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: membrane associated PubMed

Database entries

  • KEGG entry: [3]

Additional information

  • subject to Clp-dependent proteolysis upon glucose starvation PubMed

Expression and regulation

  • Regulation: induced by methionine starvation (S-box) PubMed
  • Regulatory mechanism: S-box: transcription termination/ antitermination, the S-box riboswitch binds S-adenosylmethionine resulting in termination PubMed
  • Additional information: subject to Clp-dependent proteolysis upon glucose starvation PubMed

Biological materials

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

Labs working on this gene/protein

Your additional remarks

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)

  1. Gerth et al. (2008) Clp-dependent proteolysis down-regulates central metabolic pathways in glucose-starved Bacillus subtilis. J Bacteriol 190:321-331 PubMed
  2. Hahne et al. (2008) From complementarity to comprehensiveness - targeting the membrane proteome of growing Bacillus subtilis by divergent approaches. Proteomics 8: 4123-4136 PubMed
  3. Author1, Author2 & Author3 (year) Title Journal volume: page-page. PubMed