RocC

• Description: amino acid permease
  
  

Gene name	rocC
Synonyms	ipa-78d
Essential	no
Product	amino acid permease
Function	arginine, ornithine and citrulline uptake
MW, pI	51 kDa, 8.41
Gene length, protein length	1410 bp, 470 aa
Immediate neighbours	ywfA, rocB
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU37760

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family: amino acid-polyamine-organocation (APC) superfamily (according to Swiss-Prot)

• 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)

Database entries

• Structure:

• Swiss prot entry: P39636

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: rocA-rocB-rocC PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigL PubMed

• Regulation: induction by arginine (RocR) PubMed, repressed by CodY PubMed
  • repressed during growth in the presence of branched chain amino acids (CodY) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism: CodY: transcription repression PubMed, RocR: transcription activation PubMed
  • CodY: transcription repression PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody: