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swrA
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swrA

master activator of flagellar biosynthesis, modulator of DegU activity, converts DegU-P from a repressor to an activator of the fla-che operon, enhances sigD transcription, controls the number of flagellar basal bodies, inactive pseudogene in strain 168
Locus
BSU_35230
Isoelectric point
0.00
Molecular weight
0.00 kDa
Protein length
112 aa Sequence Blast
Gene length
339 bp Sequence Blast
Function
control of DegU activity
Product
swarming motility protein
Essential
no
Synonyms
swrAA/1,swrAA,yvzD,ifm
Outlinks
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Genomic Context

      
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Categories containing this gene/protein

  • Information processing → Regulation of gene expression → Transcription factors and their control → Control of two-component response regulators → Control of response regulators/ other
  • Lifestyles → Exponential and early post-exponential lifestyles → Motility and chemotaxis → Signal transduction in motility and chemotaxis → Additional chemotaxis signal transduction and regulatory proteins
  • Lifestyles → Exponential and early post-exponential lifestyles → Biofilm formation
  • Lifestyles → Exponential and early post-exponential lifestyles → Biofilm formation → Other proteins required for biofilm formation
  • Lifestyles → Exponential and early post-exponential lifestyles → Swarming
  • Groups of genes → Pseudogenes

    • Gene

    Coordinates
    3,621,618 3,621,956

    Phenotypes of a mutant

  • loss of swarming motility PubMed

    • The protein

    Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity

  • interacts with the N-terminal domain of DegU to control the activity of DegU PubMed

    • Localization

  • cytoplasm (according to Swiss-Prot)

    • Expression and Regulation

    Operons

    Genes
    swrA-swrAA/2
    Description
    PubMed

    Sigma factors

  • SigD: sigma factor, PubMed, in SigD regulon
  • SigA: sigma factor, PubMed, in SigA regulon

    • Regulatory mechanism

  • DegU: activation, DegU-P, (SigA promoter) PubMed, in DegU regulon

    • Additional information

  • SwrA levels are 3 ... 10-fold increased on solid medium as compared to liquid medium (due to LonA/SmiA-mediated degradation of SwrA in liquid medium) PubMed
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    Biological materials

    Mutant

  • MGNA-A376 (yvzD::erm), available at the NBRP B. subtilis, Japan
  • BKE35230 (swrA::erm trpC2) available at BGSC, PubMed, upstream reverse: _UP1_TCTGTCTTTTAATTGTTCCA, downstream forward: _UP4_TAAACTCTCCTGAGGATATC
  • BKK35230 (swrA::kan trpC2) available at BGSC, PubMed, upstream reverse: _UP1_TCTGTCTTTTAATTGTTCCA, downstream forward: _UP4_TAAACTCTCCTGAGGATATC

    • References

    Reviews

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    Original publications

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