MotB

• Description: H+-coupled MotAB flagellar stator
  
  

Gene name	motB
Synonyms	mot
Essential	no
Product	motility protein (flagellar motor rotation)
Function	motility and chemotaxis
MW, pI	29 kDa, 6.652
Gene length, protein length	783 bp, 261 aa
Immediate neighbours	mhqR, motA
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU13680

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

Categories containing this gene/protein

motility and chemotaxis, membrane proteins

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family: OmpA-like domain (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions: MotA-MotB

• Localization: cell membrane (according to Swiss-Prot)

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: P28612

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: motA-motB PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigD PubMed

• Regulation:

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

M Z Gilman, M J Chamberlin
Developmental and genetic regulation of Bacillus subtilis genes transcribed by sigma 28-RNA polymerase.
Cell: 1983, 35(1);285-93
[PubMed:6313226] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)