MgtE

• Description: magnesium transport via permease (no H+)
  
  

Gene name	mgtE
Synonyms	ykoK
Essential	no
Product	magnesium transport via permease (no H+)
Function	magnesium uptake
MW, pI	50 kDa, 4.609
Gene length, protein length	1353 bp, 451 aa
Immediate neighbours	ykzD, tnrA
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU13300

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: no entry
• SubtiList entry: [1]

Categories containing this gene/protein

transporters/ other, metal ion homeostasis (K, Na, Ca, Mg), membrane proteins

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family: SLC41A transporter family (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:

• Localization: cell membrane (according to Swiss-Prot)

Database entries

• Structure: 2QBZ (the mgtE riboswitch)

• UniProt: O34442

• KEGG entry: [2]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon:

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation: induced at low magnesium concentration (M-box) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism: M-box: Mg(2+)-responsive riboswitch PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Charles E Dann, Catherine A Wakeman, Cecelia L Sieling, Stephanie C Baker, Irnov Irnov, Wade C Winkler
Structure and mechanism of a metal-sensing regulatory RNA.
Cell: 2007, 130(5);878-92
[PubMed:17803910] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Jeffrey E Barrick, Keith A Corbino, Wade C Winkler, Ali Nahvi, Maumita Mandal, Jennifer Collins, Mark Lee, Adam Roth, Narasimhan Sudarsan, Inbal Jona, J Kenneth Wickiser, Ronald R Breaker
New RNA motifs suggest an expanded scope for riboswitches in bacterial genetic control.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A: 2004, 101(17);6421-6
[PubMed:15096624] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)