GroES

• Description: chaperonin, universally conserved protein
  
  

Gene name	groES
Synonyms
Essential	yes PubMed
Product	chaperonin
Function	protein folding and re-folding
Metabolic function and regulation of this protein in SubtiPathways: Stress
MW, pI	10 kDa, 4.595
Gene length, protein length	282 bp, 94 aa
Immediate neighbours	ydiL, groEL
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU06020

Phenotypes of a mutant

essential PubMed

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family: groES chaperonin family (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions: GroEL-GroES

• Localization: cytoplasm (according to Swiss-Prot)

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: P28599

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Additional information

universally conserved protein

Expression and regulation

• Operon: groES-groEL PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigA PubMed

• Regulation: induced by heat shock (HrcA) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism: HrcA: transcription repression PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

Labs working on this gene/protein

Wolfgang Schumann, Bayreuth University, Germany Homepage

References

A Schulz, W Schumann
hrcA, the first gene of the Bacillus subtilis dnaK operon encodes a negative regulator of class I heat shock genes.
J Bacteriol: 1996, 178(4);1088-93
[PubMed:8576042] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

G Yuan, S L Wong
Isolation and characterization of Bacillus subtilis groE regulatory mutants: evidence for orf39 in the dnaK operon as a repressor gene in regulating the expression of both groE and dnaK.
J Bacteriol: 1995, 177(22);6462-8
[PubMed:7592421] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

A Schmidt, M Schiesswohl, U Völker, M Hecker, W Schumann
Cloning, sequencing, mapping, and transcriptional analysis of the groESL operon from Bacillus subtilis.
J Bacteriol: 1992, 174(12);3993-9
[PubMed:1350777] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

M Li, S L Wong
Cloning and characterization of the groESL operon from Bacillus subtilis.
J Bacteriol: 1992, 174(12);3981-92
[PubMed:1350776] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)