Gene Details


gene name: araC


locus tag k12ECK0065 Crenarchaeota Euryarchaeota Nanoarcheota Alphaproteobacteria Betaproteobacteria Gammaproteobacteria Deltaproteobacteria Epsilonproteobacteria Cyanobacteria Actinobacteridae Firmicutes Spirochaetes others Protist Microsporidia Fungi Metazoa Plantae
information on phylogenetic profile
locus tag mg1655b0064
locus tag w3110JW0063
gene name k12araC
locus namearaC
synonyms of locus name

scop id46689; 51215
superfamilyHomeodomain-like; Regulatory protein AraC
pfam idPF02311; PF00165
pfam domainAraC-like ligand binding domain; Bacterial regulatory helix-turn-helix prot, AraC fam
TIGRFAMno information

swissprot nameARAC_ECOLI
descriptionArabinose operon regulatory protein.
seq length292
fastaseq

go idGO:0005737; GO:0016563; GO:0016564; GO:0006350; GO:0016052; GO:0016052
go termcytoplasm; transcriptional activator activity; transcriptional repressor activity; transcription; carbohydrate catabolism; carb catab

gene product descriptionDNA-binding transcriptional dual regulator
comment gene product description
evidenceE
context
gene product descRegulator
cell locationCytoplasmic
featuresCDS

functional category codeK
functional categoryTranscription

reference #1Arabinose-induced binding of AraC protein to araI2 activates the araBAD operon promoter.

Lee N., Francklyn C., Hamilton E. (Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1987 Dec; 84(24):8814-8)
reference #2Activation of ara operons by a truncated AraC protein does not require inducer.

Menon K., Lee N. (Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1990 May; 87(10):3708-12)
reference #3AraC-DNA looping: orientation and distance-dependent loop breaking by the cyclic AMP receptor protein.

Lobell R., Schleif R. (J Mol Biol. 1991 Mar 5; 218(1):45-54)
reference #4The araC regulatory gene mRNA contains a leader sequence.

Cass L., Horwitz A., Miyada C., Greenfield L., Wilcox G. (Mol Gen Genet. 1980; 180(1):219-26)
reference #5Is the amino acid but not the nucleotide sequence of the Escherichia coli araC gene conserved?

Stoner C., Schleif R. (J Mol Biol. 1982 Feb 5; 154(4):649-52)
reference #6DNA sequence of the araC regulatory gene from Escherichia coli B/r.

Miyada C., Horwitz A., Cass L., Timko J., Wilcox G. (Nucleic Acids Res. 1980 Nov 25; 8(22):5267-74)
reference #7The araC gene of Escherichia coli: transcriptional and translational start-points and complete nucleotide sequence.

Wallace R., Lee N., Fowler A. (Gene. 1980 Dec; 12(3-4):179-90)
reference #8Structural basis for ligand-regulated oligomerization of AraC.

Soisson S., MacDougall-Shackleton B., Schleif R., Wolberger C. (Science. 1997 Apr 18; 276(5311):421-5)
reference #9The 1.6 A crystal structure of the AraC sugar-binding and dimerization domain complexed with D-fucose.

Soisson S., MacDougall-Shackleton B., Schleif R., Wolberger C. (J Mol Biol. 1997 Oct 17; 273(1):226-37)

phylogenetic profile
 
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1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 67 1 52 56 52 1 1 72 1 1 68 53
53 1 61 61 1 1 1 68 1 1 1 56 69 69 61 1 1 1 55 59
55 1 1 1 1 53 1 55 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 58 63 1 71
67 63 53 68 56 59 51 54 1 63 62 63 62 63 1 1 1 1 1 1
1 1 54 1 55 55 55 55 55 1 1 61 81 81 78 77 78 77 77 73
1 51 1 1 1 1 1 296 563 585 585 50 65 60 233 1 1 52 63 58
55 521 527 521 1 579 579 56 231 65 1 56 59 1 1 294 294 297 1 64
79 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 57 1 56 55 1 1 1 1 58 1 1
1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1