MinC

• Description: cell-division inhibitor (septum placement), destabilizes FtsZ-rings at new cell poles
  
  

Gene name	minC
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	cell-division inhibitor
Function	septum placement
MW, pI	24 kDa, 6.262
Gene length, protein length	678 bp, 226 aa
Immediate neighbours	minD, mreD
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
Genetic context This image was kindly provided by SubtiList

Categories containing this gene/protein

cell division, cell envelope stress proteins (controlled by SigM, W, X, Y), membrane proteins

This gene is a member of the following regulons

SigH regulon, SigM regulon

The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU28000

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: The Min system prevents minicell formation adjacent to recently completed division sites by promoting the disassembly of the cytokinetic ring, thereby ensuring that cell division occurs only once per cell cycle PubMed

• Protein family: minC family (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions: (MinC-MinD)-MinJ-DivIVA PubMed

• Localization:
  • polar/ septal at the cell membrane PubMed
  • membrane binding/ polar localization depends on the proton motive force PubMed

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: Q01463

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon:
  • radC-mreB-mreC-mreD-minC-minD PubMed
  • mreB-mreC-mreD-minC-minD PubMed
  • minC-minD PubMed

• Sigma factor:
  • radC: SigM PubMed
  • minC: SigH PubMed

• Regulation:

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody: