ComP

• Description: two-component sensor kinase, detects extracellular ComX
  
  

Gene name	comP
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	two-component sensor kinase
Function	regulation of genetic competence and quorum sensing
MW, pI	89 kDa, 7.997
Gene length, protein length	2307 bp, 769 aa
Immediate neighbours	comA, comX
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU31690

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: ATP + protein L-histidine = ADP + protein N-phospho-L-histidine (according to Swiss-Prot) autophosphorylation, phosphorylation of ComA

• Protein family:

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity: ComX (extracellular)

• Interactions: ComP-ComA

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

Database entries

• Structure:

• Swiss prot entry: Q99027

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon:

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation:

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody: