TlpA

• Description: methyl-accepting chemotaxis protein
  
  

Gene name	tlpA
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	methyl-accepting chemotaxis protein
Function	control of chemotaxis
MW, pI	72 kDa, 4.906
Gene length, protein length	1986 bp, 662 aa
Immediate neighbours	mcpA, mcpB
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU31250

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:

• Localization: cell membrane (according to Swiss-Prot), Polar (Septum) PubMed

Database entries

• Structure:

• Swiss prot entry: P39216

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: tlpA-mcpA

• Sigma factor: SigD

• Regulation:

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Jean-Christophe Meile, Ling Juan Wu, S Dusko Ehrlich, Jeff Errington, Philippe Noirot
Systematic localisation of proteins fused to the green fluorescent protein in Bacillus subtilis: identification of new proteins at the DNA replication factory.
Proteomics: 2006, 6(7);2135-46
[PubMed:16479537] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

D W Hanlon, G W Ordal
Cloning and characterization of genes encoding methyl-accepting chemotaxis proteins in Bacillus subtilis.
J Biol Chem: 1994, 269(19);14038-46
[PubMed:8188684] [WorldCat.org] (P p)