CstA

• Description: putative peptide transporter, carbon starvation-induced protein
  
  

Gene name	cstA
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	putative peptide transporter, carbon starvation-induced protein
Function	uptake of peptides
Gene expression levels in SubtiExpress: cstA
MW, pI	64 kDa, 8.658
Gene length, protein length	1794 bp, 598 aa
Immediate neighbours	ysfE, abfA
Sequences	Protein DNA DNA_with_flanks
Genetic context This image was kindly provided by SubtiList
Expression at a glance   PubMed 500px

Categories containing this gene/protein

transporters/ other, Utilization of nitrogen sources other than amino acids

This gene is a member of the following regulons

CcpA regulon

The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU28710

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: no entry

• SubtiList entry: [1]

Additional information

the E.coli homolog: cstA

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family: cstA 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:
  • membrane (according to UniProt)

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: P94532

• KEGG entry: [2]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon:
  • cstA-ysfE PubMed

• Expression browser: cstA PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigA PubMed

• Regulation: repressed by glucose (3.4-fold) (CcpA) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • CcpA: transcription repression PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

The E. coli homolog

J E Schultz, A Matin
Molecular and functional characterization of a carbon starvation gene of Escherichia coli.
J Mol Biol: 1991, 218(1);129-40
[PubMed:1848300] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)