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Table 11 Functionally characterized Sco and Mxa proteins

From: Comparative genomics of transport proteins in developmental bacteria: Myxococcus xanthus and Streptomyces coelicolor

Protein designation; Sco# or Mxan#, and reference1

UniProt Acc#

TC#

Probable or established function

S. coelicolor

MscL; Sco3190 [102]

Q9KYV5

1.A.22.1.10

MscL, osmotic adaptation channel that influences sporulation and secondary metabolite production.

GlcP1/2; Sco7153; Sco5578 [103]

Q7BEC4

2.A.1.1.35

MFS major glucose uptake porters (two identical sequences at the AA level, and having a single substitution on the NT level).

MdrA; Sco4007 [104]

Q9ADP8

2.A.1.36.4

Putative MDR transporter; may export hydrophobic cationic compounds.

PitH1 and 2; Sco4138 and Sco1845 [105]

Q9KZW3, Q9RJ23

2.A.20.1.5 and 6

Two putative low-affinity inorganic phosphate (Pi) uptake porters.

DasABC: Sco5232-4 (R, M, M). MsiK: Sco4240 (C) [106]

Q9K489-91,Q9L0Q1

3.A.1.1.33

DasABC/MsiK; system for the uptake of chitin-degradation products.

Agl3EFG porter (R, M, M; Sco7167-Sco7165 [107]; Agl3K (C; unknown)

Q9FBS7-5

3.A.1.1.43

Sugar uptake porter; induced by trehalose and melibiose using a GntR transcription factor. May use the MsiK ATPase [106].

MalEFG; Sco2231-Sco2229 (R, M, M) [108]; MalK (C) unknown.

Q7AKP1, Q9KZ07-8

3.A.1.1.44

Sugar uptake porter; involved in maltose and maltodextrin uptake. May use the MsiK ATPase [106].

XylFGH.

O50503-5

3.A.1.2.24

Xylose uptake porter; transcriptionally regulated by a GntR-type protein, ROK7B7.

XylF, Sco6009 (R; 1 N-terminal TMS);

XylG, Sco6010 (C; ATP-binding, no TMSs);

XylH, Sco6011 (M; 12 TMSs); [109]

Probable ABC peptide uptake porter; Sco5476-80 (M, R, M, C, C) [110]

O86571-5

3.A.1.5.34

Probably takes up a peptide involved in the regulation of sporulation and secondary metabolite production.

Sco5117-Sco5121 (R, M, M, C, C) [111]

Q9F353-49

3.A.1.5.35

Probable oligopeptide uptake porter.

BldKA-D and Sco5116; Sco5112-6 (M, R, M, C, C) [112]

Q93IU3-0; Q8CJS2

3.A.1.5.36

BldKA-D and Sco5116; peptide uptake porter induced by S-adenosylmethionine.

DesABC; Sco7499-8, Sco7400 (R, M-M, C) [113]

Q9L177-9

3.A.1.14.12

Desferrioxamine B uptake porter.

CchCDEF; Sco0497-4 (M, M, C, R) [113]

Q9RK09-12

3.A.1.14.13

Ferric iron-coelichelin uptake porter.

DesEFGH; Sco2780 (R), Sco1785-7 (C, M, M) [113]

Q9L07; Q9S215-3

3.A.1.14.22

Putative ferric iron-desferrioxamine E uptake porter.

SclAB; Sco4359-60 (C, M) [114]

Q9F2Y8-7

3.A.1.105.13

SclAB transporter; confers acyl depsipeptide (ADEP) resistance. ADEP has antibiotic activity.

RagAB; Sco4075-4 (C, M) [115]

Q7AKK4-5

3.A.1.105.14

RagAB exporter; involved in both aerial hyphae formation and sporulation.

SoxR regulon ABC exporter; Sco7008 (M, C) [116]

Q9KZE5

3.A.1.106.9

Putative SoxR-regulated drug exporter; SoxR responds to extracellular redox-active compounds such as actinorhodin.

AreABCD; Sco3956-9 (C, M, C’, M’) [117]

Q9ZBX6-3

3.A.1.146.1

Putative drug exporter; possibly specific for actinorhodin (ACT) and undecylprodigiosin (RED).

H+-PPase; Sco3547 [118]

Q6BCL0

3.A.10.2.2

H+-translocating inorganic pyrophosphatase.

M. xanthus

MmrA; MXAN_5906 [119]

Q1CZY0

2.A.1.2.83

Homologous to drug exporter; possibly involved in amino acid uptake and antimicrobial export.

TatABC; MXAN_2960, MXAN_5905-4, [120]

Q1D854, Q1CZY1-2

2.A.64.1.2

Twin arginine targeting protein translocase.

RfbAB; MXAN_4623-2 (M, C) [121]

Q1D3I2-3

3.A.1.103.4

Putative lipopolysaccharide exporter.

AbcA; MXAN_1286 (M-C) [122]

Q1DCT0

3.A.1.106.10

AbcA; involved in molecular export; required for the autochemotactic process.

PilGHI; MXAN_5782-0 (R, C, M) [123]

O30384-6

3.A.1.144.5

Necessary for social motility, pilus assembly and pilus subunit (PilA) export.

  1. 1 M: Membrane component; C: cytoplasmic ATPase energizer; R: Extracytoplasmic solute receptor of an ABC transporter.