TCDB is operated by the Saier Lab Bioinformatics Group
« See all members of the family


2.A.42.1.3
Low affinity (70 μM) tryptophan permease, coregulated with the enzyme tryptophanase.  It  functions in tryptohan degradation, yielding carbon and nitrogen (Gu et al. 2013).

Accession Number:P23173
Protein Name:TnaB aka TRPP aka B3709
Length:415
Molecular Weight:45211.00
Species:Escherichia coli [83333]
Number of TMSs:11
Location1 / Topology2 / Orientation3: Cell inner membrane1 / Multi-pass membrane protein2
Substrate tryptophan

Cross database links:

RefSeq: AP_004080.1    AP_004082.1    NP_418165.1   
Entrez Gene ID: 948220   
Pfam: PF03222   
BioCyc: EcoCyc:TNAB-MONOMER    ECOL168927:B3709-MONOMER   
KEGG: eco:b3709   

Gene Ontology

GO:0016021 C:integral to membrane
GO:0005886 C:plasma membrane
GO:0006865 P:amino acid transport
GO:0006569 P:tryptophan catabolic process

References (6)

[1] “A new family of integral membrane proteins involved in transport of aromatic amino acids in Escherichia coli.”  Sarsero J.P.et.al.   2022620
[2] “DNA sequence and analysis of 136 kilobases of the Escherichia coli genome: organizational symmetry around the origin of replication.”  Burland V.D.et.al.   7686882
[3] “The complete genome sequence of Escherichia coli K-12.”  Blattner F.R.et.al.   9278503
[4] “Highly accurate genome sequences of Escherichia coli K-12 strains MG1655 and W3110.”  Hayashi K.et.al.   16738553
[5] “Nucleotide sequence of the structural gene for tryptophanase of Escherichia coli K-12.”  Deeley M.C.et.al.   6268608
[6] “Global topology analysis of the Escherichia coli inner membrane proteome.”  Daley D.O.et.al.   15919996

External Searches:

Analyze:

Predict TMSs (Predict number of transmembrane segments)
Window Size: Angle:  
FASTA formatted sequence
1:	MTDQAEKKHS AFWGVMVIAG TVIGGGMFAL PVDLAGAWFF WGAFILIIAW FSMLHSGLLL 
61:	LEANLNYPVG SSFNTITKDL IGNTWNIISG ITVAFVLYIL TYAYISANGA IISETISMNL 
121:	GYHANPRIVG ICTAIFVASV LWLSSLAASR ITSLFLGLKI ISFVIVFGSF FFQVDYSILR 
181:	DATSSTAGTS YFPYIFMALP VCLASFGFHG NIPSLIICYG KRKDKLIKSV VFGSLLALVI 
241:	YLFWLYCTMG NIPRESFKAI ISSGGNVDSL VKSFLGTKQH GIIEFCLLVF SNLAVASSFF 
301:	GVTLGLFDYL ADLFKIDNSH GGRFKTVLLT FLPPALLYLI FPNGFIYGIG GAGLCATIWA 
361:	VIIPAVLAIK ARKKFPNQMF TVWGGNLIPA IVILFGITVI LCWFGNVFNV LPKFG