McsB

• Description: protein arginine kinase, phosphorylates CtsR, modulator of CtsR-dependent repression
  
  

Gene name	mcsB
Synonyms	yacI
Essential	no
Product	protein arginine kinase
Function	control of CtsR activity
Metabolic function and regulation of this protein in SubtiPathways: Stress
MW, pI	40 kDa, 5.068
Gene length, protein length	1089 bp, 363 aa
Immediate neighbours	mcsA, clpC
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU00850

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: phosphorylation of CtsR on Arg-62 PubMed

• Protein family: ATP:guanido phosphotransferase family (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions: McsA-McsB-CtsR, McsB-CtsR, McsB-ClpC, McsA-McsB

• Localization:

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: P37570

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: ctsR-mcsA-mcsB-clpC-radA-disA PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigA PubMed, SigB PubMed1 PubMed2, SigF PubMed

• Regulation:
  • expressed early during sporulation in the forespore (SigF) PubMed
  • induced by stress (SigB) PubMed
  • induced by heat (CtsR) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • CtsR: transcription repression PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody: