GroEL

• Description: chaperonin and co-repressor for HrcA
  
  

Gene name	groEL
Synonyms
Essential	yes PubMed
Product	chaperonin, co-repressor for HrcA
Function	protein folding and re-folding
Metabolic function and regulation of this protein in SubtiPathways: Stress
MW, pI	57 kDa, 4.531
Gene length, protein length	1632 bp, 544 aa
Immediate neighbours	groES, ydiM
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU06030

Phenotypes of a mutant

essential PubMed

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

Categories containing this gene/protein

chaperones/ protein folding, heat shock proteins, essential genes, phosphoproteins

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: acts as co-repressor for HrcA

• Protein family: chaperonin (HSP60) family (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification: phosphorylated on ser/ thr/ tyr PubMed, PubMed

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions: HrcA-GroEL, GroEL-GroES

• Localization: cytoplasm (according to Swiss-Prot)

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: P28598

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

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:
  • for expression, purification in E. coli with N-terminal His-tag, in pWH844: pGP1000 available in Stülke lab
  • for expression, purification in E. coli with N-terminal Strep-tag, in pGP172: pGP1002 available in Stülke lab

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

Labs working on this gene/protein

Wolfgang Schumann, Bayreuth University, Germany Homepage