McpB

• Description: methyl-accepting chemotaxis protein
  
  

Gene name	mcpB
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	methyl-accepting chemotaxis protein
Function	control of chemotaxis
MW, pI	71 kDa, 5.13
Gene length, protein length	1986 bp, 662 aa
Immediate neighbours	tlpA, tgl
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU31260

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family:

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information: K(D) for asparagine: 14 myM PubMed

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity: asparagine (binds to the part of McpB that is exposed to the exterior) PubMed

• Interactions: CheA-McpB PubMed

• Localization: cell membrane PubMed

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: P39215

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: mcpB

• Sigma factor: SigD

• Regulation:

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody: