SftA

• Description: DNA translocase
  
  

Gene name	sftA
Synonyms	ytpS
Essential	no
Product	DNA translocase
Function	resolution of chromosome dimers
MW, pI	30 kDa, 9.955
Gene length, protein length	792 bp, 264 aa
Immediate neighbours	murC, ytpR
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU29805

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: no entry

• SubtiList entry: [1]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family:

• Paralogous protein(s): SpoIIIE

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:

• Localization: Cytoplasm (Homogeneous) PubMed, co-localizes with FtsZ at nascent division sites PubMed

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: C0SP86

• KEGG entry: [2]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon:

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation:

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Steven J Biller, William F Burkholder
The Bacillus subtilis SftA (YtpS) and SpoIIIE DNA translocases play distinct roles in growing cells to ensure faithful chromosome partitioning.
Mol Microbiol: 2009, 74(4);790-809
[PubMed:19788545] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Jean-Christophe Meile, Ling Juan Wu, S Dusko Ehrlich, Jeff Errington, Philippe Noirot
Systematic localisation of proteins fused to the green fluorescent protein in Bacillus subtilis: identification of new proteins at the DNA replication factory.
Proteomics: 2006, 6(7);2135-46
[PubMed:16479537] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)