BcaP

• Description: branched-chain amino acid transporter
  
  

Gene name	bcaP
Synonyms	yhdG
Essential	no
Product	branched-chain amino acid transporter
Function	biosynthesis/acquisition of branched-chain amino acids
MW, pI	49 kDa, 9.735
Gene length, protein length	1395 bp, 465 aa
Immediate neighbours	yhdF, yhdH
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU09460

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: no entry

• SubtiList entry: [1]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family: amino acid-polyamine-organocation (APC) superfamily (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s): YfnA

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: O07576

• KEGG entry: [2]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon:

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation:
  • repressed during growth in the presence of branched chain amino acids (CodY) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • CodY: transcription repression PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody: