MreBH

• Description: cell-shape determining protein, forms filaments
  
  

Gene name	mreBH
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	cell-shape determining protein
Function	cell-shape determation
MW, pI	35 kDa, 5.239
Gene length, protein length	1005 bp, 335 aa
Immediate neighbours	ykpC, abh
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU14470

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: no entry

• SubtiList entry: [1]

Categories containing this gene/protein

cell shape, heat shock proteins, membrane proteins

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:
  • forms ring-shaped filaments in a heterologous system PubMed

• Protein family: ftsA/mreB family (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s): MreB, Mbl

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions: MreBH-LytE PubMed, MreBH-Mbl, MreB-MreBH PubMed

• Localization:
  • forms helical structures close to the inner surface of the cytoplasmic membrane PubMed
  • formation of helical clusters depends on the proton motive force PubMed

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: P39763

• KEGG entry: [2]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon:

• Sigma factor: SigI PubMed

• Regulation: induced by heat (SigI) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

Labs working on this gene/protein

Peter Graumann, Freiburg University, Germany homepage