ComK

• Description: competence transcription factor (CTF)
  
  

Gene name	comK
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	competence transcription factor (CTF)
Function	regulation of competence and DNA uptake
MW, pI	22 kDa, 7.669
Gene length, protein length	576 bp, 192 aa
Immediate neighbours	yhzC, yhxD
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Coordinates:

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family:

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions: MecA-ComK PubMed

• Localization:

Database entries

• Structure:

• Swiss prot entry: P40396

• KEGG entry: BSU10420

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon:

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation: repressed by casamino acids PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

Labs working on this gene/protein

Oscar Kuipers, University of Groningen, The Netherlands Homepage

References

1. Author1, Author2 & Author3 (year) Title Journal volume: page-page. PubMed