Regulated Operon: gcaD-prs-ctc

Genes
Genes Synonyms Direction Genome position Function COG ID Genus clusters
gcaD tms, tms26 + 56350..57720 UDP-N-acetylglucosamine pyrophosphorylase COG1207 gcaD-BAC  
prs
+ 57743..58696 phosphoribosylpyrophosphate synthetase COG0462 prs-BAC prs-STA prs-STR-1 prs-STR-2  
ctc
+ 58781..59395 general stress protein COG1825  

Operon evidence: Northern blotting (3.0 kb transcript)
Reference: Horsburgh MJ, et al. (2001), Hilden I, et al. (1995), Moran CP Jr, et al. (1981), Truitt CL, et al. (1988)
Comments: The internal promoter in front of ctc leads to a 0.6 kb monocistronic ctc transcript. Northern blotting results in BSORF show both a gcaD-prs-ctc transcript and longer transcripts.


Promoters

Binding
factor
Regulation Location Absolute position Binding seq.(cis-element) Experimental evidence
SigA Promoter -48:+17 56274..56338 CATGAAGTCTCCTTGAAATCAGAAGATATTTAGGATATATTTTTCTATGGATAAAAGGGATATTG Moran CP Jr, et al. (1982): RO, dinucleotide priming
Henkin TM, et al. (1988): Genetics and biotechnology of Bacilli, vol.2 p.63-67: SDM RG RO
Whipple FW, et al. (1992): RO
SigB Promoter -40:+2 58706..58747 CGAGGTTTAAATCCTTATCGTTATGGGTATTGTTTGTAATAG Ollington JF, et al. (1981): NB DP RO, in-vitro transcription
Moran CP Jr, et al. (1981): FT S1 RO, dinucleotide priming
Tatti KM & Moran CP Jr (1984): RO SDM
Igo MM & Losick R (1986): RG NB DP
Boylan SA, et al. (1993): RG
Voelker U, et al. (1994): 2D PAGE, HB
Petersohn A, et al. (1999): HB

Terminator

Terminator sequence Absolute position Position from stop codon Free energy
[kcal/mol]
Downstream of
CTTAAGGCGTAACCCTCCCGCGGTTACGTCTTTTGTGCTAGAATG
     >>>>>>>>>       <<<<<<<<<
59404..59428
9..33
-13.4
ctc

Overview



Upper Region






Copyright: Human Genome Center, Inst. Med. Sci., Univ. Tokyo; 1999-2006
Contact: Kenta Nakai