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===Phenotypes of a mutant ===

Revision as of 23:39, 2 June 2009

  • Description: carbamoyl-phosphate transferase-arginine (subunit A)

Gene name carA
Synonyms cpa
Essential no
Product carbamoyl-phosphate transferase-arginine (subunit A)
Function biosynthesis of arginine
MW, pI 38 kDa, 6.212
Gene length, protein length 1059 bp, 353 aa
Immediate neighbours argD, carB
Get the DNA and protein sequences
(Barbe et al., 2009)
Genetic context
CarA context.gif
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The gene

Basic information

  • Locus tag:

Phenotypes of a mutant

Database entries

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

Additional information

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

  • Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: 2 ATP + L-glutamine + HCO3- + H2O = 2 ADP + phosphate + L-glutamate + carbamoyl phosphate (according to Swiss-Prot)
  • Protein family: glutamine amidotransferase type-1 domain (according to Swiss-Prot)
  • Paralogous protein(s): PyrAA

Extended information on the protein

  • Kinetic information:
  • Domains:
  • Modification:
  • Cofactor(s):
  • Effectors of protein activity:
  • Interactions:
  • Localization:

Database entries

  • Structure:

Additional information

Expression and regulation

  • Regulation: repressed by casamino acids PubMed, repressed by arginine (AhrC)
  • Regulatory mechanism: AhrC: transcription repression
  • 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

  1. Mäder et al. (2002) Transcriptome and Proteome Analysis of Bacillus subtilis Gene Expression Modulated by Amino Acid Availability. J. Bacteriol 184: 1844288-4295 PubMed
  2. Author1, Author2 & Author3 (year) Title Journal volume: page-page. PubMed