GroES

• Description: chaperonin
  
  

Gene name	groES
Synonyms
Essential	yes PubMed
Product	chaperonin
Function	protein folding and re-folding
Metabolic function and regulation of this protein in SubtiPathways: Stress
MW, pI	10 kDa, 4.595
Gene length, protein length	282 bp, 94 aa
Immediate neighbours	ydiL, groEL
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU06020

Phenotypes of a mutant

essential PubMed

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family: groES chaperonin family (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions: GroEL-GroES

• Localization: cytoplasm (according to Swiss-Prot)

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: P28599

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: groES-groEL PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigA PubMed

• Regulation: induced by heat shock (HrcA) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism: HrcA: transcription repression

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

Labs working on this gene/protein

Wolfgang Schumann, Bayreuth University, Germany Homepage