McpA

• Description: methyl-accepting chemotaxis protein
  
  

Gene name	mcpA
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	methyl-accepting chemotaxis protein
Function	control of chemotaxis
MW, pI	72 kDa, 4.988
Gene length, protein length	1983 bp, 661 aa
Immediate neighbours	tlpB, tlpA
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU31240

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

Categories containing this gene/protein

motility and chemotaxis, membrane proteins

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:

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

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: P39214

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: tlpA-mcpA PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigD PubMed

• Regulation:

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody: