ThiU

  • Description: thiamine ABC transporter (binding protein)

Gene name thiU Synonyms ykoF Essential no Product thiamine ABC transporter (binding protein) Function thiamine uptake Gene expression levels in SubtiExpress: thiU Interactions involving this protein in SubtInteract: ThiU Metabolic function and regulation of this protein in SubtiPathways: thiU MW, pI 21 kDa, 6.046 Gene length, protein length 600 bp, 200 aa Immediate neighbours thiV, ykoG Sequences Protein DNA DNA_with_flanks Genetic context Expression at a glance PubMed

ABC transporters, biosynthesis of cofactors, membrane proteins

Thi-box

Basic information

  • Locus tag: BSU13240

Phenotypes of a mutant

Database entries

  • BsubCyc: BSU13240
  • DBTBS entry: no entry
  • SubtiList entry: [1]

Additional information

Basic information/ Evolution

  • Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:
  • Protein family:
  • Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

  • Kinetic information:
  • Domains:
  • Modification:
  • Cofactor(s):
  • Effectors of protein activity:
  • Interactions:
    • ThiW-(ThiV-ThiX)-ThiU PubMed
  • Localization: membrane associated (via ThiV-ThiX) PubMed

Database entries

  • BsubCyc: BSU13240
  • Structure: 1SBR (complex with thiamine), 1S99
  • UniProt: O34911
  • KEGG entry: [2]
  • E.C. number:

Additional information

  • Operon: thiU-thiV-thiW-thiX PubMed
  • Expression browser: thiU PubMed
  • Sigma factor:
  • Regulation:
    • repressed by thiamine (Thi-box) PubMed
  • Regulatory mechanism:
    • Thi-box: RNA switch PubMed
  • Additional information:
    • number of protein molecules per cell (minimal medium with glucose and ammonium): 257 PubMed
    • number of protein molecules per cell (complex medium with amino acids, without glucose): 745 PubMed
    • number of protein molecules per cell (minimal medium with glucose and ammonium, exponential phase): 1463 PubMed
    • number of protein molecules per cell (minimal medium with glucose and ammonium, early stationary phase after glucose exhaustion): 433 PubMed
    • number of protein molecules per cell (minimal medium with glucose and ammonium, late stationary phase after glucose exhaustion): 540 PubMed
  • Mutant:
  • Expression vector:
  • lacZ fusion:
  • GFP fusion:
  • two-hybrid system:
  • Antibody:

Ghislain Schyns, Sébastien Potot, Yi Geng, Teresa M Barbosa, Adriano Henriques, John B Perkins Isolation and characterization of new thiamine-deregulated mutants of Bacillus subtilis. J Bacteriol: 2005, 187(23);8127-36 [PubMed:16291685] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Yancho Devedjiev, Yogesh Surendranath, Urszula Derewenda, Alexandra Gabrys, David R Cooper, Rong-guang Zhang, Lour Lezondra, Andrzej Joachimiak, Zygmunt S Derewenda The structure and ligand binding properties of the B. subtilis YkoF gene product, a member of a novel family of thiamin/HMP-binding proteins. J Mol Biol: 2004, 343(2);395-406 [PubMed:15451668] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Dmitry A Rodionov, Alexey G Vitreschak, Andrey A Mironov, Mikhail S Gelfand Comparative genomics of thiamin biosynthesis in procaryotes. New genes and regulatory mechanisms. J Biol Chem: 2002, 277(50);48949-59 [PubMed:12376536] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)