CopZ

• Description: copper transport protein, metallochaperone
  
  

Gene name	copZ
Synonyms	yvgY
Essential	no
Product	copper transport protein, metallochaperone
Function	resistance to copper
MW, pI	7 kDa, 4.162
Gene length, protein length	207 bp, 69 aa
Immediate neighbours	copA, csoR
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU33510

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: no entry

• SubtiList entry: [1]

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: CopA-CopZ

• Localization: cytoplasm (according to Swiss-Prot)

Database entries

• Structure: 2QIF

• Swiss prot entry: O32221

• KEGG entry: [2]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: copZ-copA PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigA PubMed

• Regulation: induced by copper PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

Labs working on this gene/protein

John Helmann, Cornell University, USA Homepage

References

Agustina Rodriguez-Granillo, Pernilla Wittung-Stafshede
Tuning of copper-loop flexibility in Bacillus subtilis CopZ copper chaperone: role of conserved residues.
J Phys Chem B: 2009, 113(7);1919-32
[PubMed:19170606] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

1. Author1, Author2 & Author3 (year) Title Journal volume: page-page. PubMed