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Revision as of 17:18, 30 July 2011

  • Description: cell-division inhibitor (septum placement), destabilizes FtsZ-rings at new cell poles

Gene name minC
Synonyms
Essential no
Product cell-division inhibitor
Function septum placement
Interactions involving this protein in SubtInteract: MinC
MW, pI 24 kDa, 6.262
Gene length, protein length 678 bp, 226 aa
Immediate neighbours minD, mreD
Get the DNA and protein sequences
(Barbe et al., 2009)
Genetic context
MinC context.gif
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Categories containing this gene/protein

cell division, cell envelope stress proteins (controlled by SigM, W, X, Y), membrane proteins

This gene is a member of the following regulons

SigH regulon, SigM regulon

The gene

Basic information

  • Locus tag: BSU28000

Phenotypes of a mutant

Database entries

  • DBTBS entry: [1]
  • SubtiList entry: [2]

Additional information

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

  • Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: The Min system prevents minicell formation adjacent to recently completed division sites by promoting the disassembly of the cytokinetic ring, thereby ensuring that cell division occurs only once per cell cycle PubMed
  • Protein family: minC family (according to Swiss-Prot)
  • Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

  • Kinetic information:
  • Domains:
  • Modification:
  • Cofactor(s):
  • Effectors of protein activity:
  • Localization:
    • polar/ septal at the cell membrane PubMed
    • membrane binding/ polar localization depends on the proton motive force PubMed

Database entries

  • Structure:
  • KEGG entry: [3]
  • E.C. number:

Additional information

Expression and regulation

  • Regulation:
  • Regulatory mechanism:
  • Additional information:

Biological materials

  • Mutant:
  • Expression vector:
  • lacZ fusion:
  • GFP fusion:
  • two-hybrid system:
  • Antibody:

Labs working on this gene/protein

Your additional remarks

References

Reviews

Marc Bramkamp, Suey van Baarle
Division site selection in rod-shaped bacteria.
Curr Opin Microbiol: 2009, 12(6);683-8
[PubMed:19884039] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

David W Adams, Jeff Errington
Bacterial cell division: assembly, maintenance and disassembly of the Z ring.
Nat Rev Microbiol: 2009, 7(9);642-53
[PubMed:19680248] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Original Publications