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Genomes and Genes

Gene Symbol: VNG_RS05700

Description: bacterio-opsin activator

Alias: VNG1464G

Species: Halobacterium sp. NRC-1

Products: VNG_RS05700

Leong D, Boyer H, Betlach M. Transcription of genes involved in bacterio-opsin gene expression in mutants of a halophilic archaebacterium. J Bacteriol. 1988;170:4910-5 pubmed

..These and other results lead us to propose that (i) brp gene expression can affect bat gene expression and (ii) the putative bat gene is involved in activating bop and brp gene expression...
Leong D, Pfeifer F, Boyer H, Betlach M. Characterization of a second gene involved in bacterio-opsin gene expression in a halophilic archaebacterium. J Bacteriol. 1988;170:4903-9 pubmed

..Our results suggest that the ORF is a gene (designated bat for bacterio-opsin activator gene) involved in bop gene expression...
Gropp F, Betlach M. The bat gene of Halobacterium halobium encodes a trans-acting oxygen inducibility factor. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1994;91:5475-9 pubmed

..Additional experiments have confirmed that one of the genes of the bop gene cluster, the bat gene, encodes a trans-acting factor that is necessary and sufficient to confer inducibility of purple membrane synthesis by low oxygen tension...