KinA

• Description: two-component sensor kinase, initiation of sporulation
  
  

Gene name	kinA
Synonyms	spoIIF, spoIIJ, gsiC, scoB, scoD
Essential	no
Product	two-component sensor kinase
Function	initiation of sporulation
MW, pI	68 kDa, 5.491
Gene length, protein length	1818 bp, 606 aa
Immediate neighbours	ykuA, patA
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU13990

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)

• Protein family:

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions: KinA-Sda, Spo0F-KinA

• Localization:

Database entries

• Structure: 2VLG (PAS domain)

• Swiss prot entry: P16497

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon:

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation:
  • expressed under conditions that trigger sporulation (Spo0A) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • Spo0A: transcription activation PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

1. Author1, Author2 & Author3 (year) Title Journal volume: page-page. PubMed