NarJ

• Description: nitrate reductase (protein J)
  
  

Gene name	narJ
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	nitrate reductase (protein J)
Function	nitrate respiration, nitrogen assimilation
MW, pI	21 kDa, 4.615
Gene length, protein length	552 bp, 184 aa
Immediate neighbours	narI, narH
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU37260

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: Nitrite + acceptor = nitrate + reduced acceptor (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Protein family:

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:

• Localization:

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: P42178

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: narG-narH-narJ-narI PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigA PubMed

• Regulation:
  • expressed under anaerobic conditions (Fnr) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • Fnr: transcription activation PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody: