ENTRAF

An Encyclopedia of well-annotated DNA-binding TRanscription factors in Bacteria and Archaea.

Transcription factor information

General information

ENTRAF ID ENTRAF0264
Gene name araR
Uniprot ID ARAR_BACSU
Organism Bacillus subtilis (strain 168)
Aminoacid sequence MLPKYAQVKEEISSWINQGKILPDQKIPTENELMQQFGVSRHTIRKAIGDLVSQGLLYSVQGGGTFVASRSAKSALHSNKTIGVLTTYISDYIFPSIIRGIESYLSEQGYSMLLTSTNNNPDNERRGLENLLSQHIDGLIVEPTKSALQTPNIGYYLNLEKNGIPFAMINASYAELAAPSFTLDDVKGGMMAAEHLLSLGHTHMMGIFKADDTQGVKRMNGFIQAHRERELFPSPDMIVTFTTEEKESKLLEKVKATLEKNSKHMPTAILCYNDEIALKVIDMLREMDLKVPEDMSIVGYDDSHFAQISEVKLTSVKHPKSVLGKAAAKYVIDCLEHKKPKQEDVIFEPELIIRQSARKLNE
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Length 362

Functional information

Function Uniprot Transcriptional repressor of the arabinose utilization genes. Also regulates its own expression. Binds to two sequences within the promoters of the araABDLMNPQ-abfA operon and the araE gene, and to one sequence in the araR promoter.
Role Repressor
Protein family GntR
Structure (PDB ID) 3TB6

References

Pubmed ID 1 9045819
Pubmed ID 2 9384377
Pubmed ID 3 10417639
Pubmed ID 4 11418559

Experimental evidences

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