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]

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:

• Swiss prot entry: P39214

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: tlpA-mcpA

• Sigma factor: SigD

• Regulation:

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Hannes Hahne, Susanne Wolff, Michael Hecker, Dörte Becher
From complementarity to comprehensiveness--targeting the membrane proteome of growing Bacillus subtilis by divergent approaches.
Proteomics: 2008, 8(19);4123-36
[PubMed:18763711] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

D W Hanlon, G W Ordal
Cloning and characterization of genes encoding methyl-accepting chemotaxis proteins in Bacillus subtilis.
J Biol Chem: 1994, 269(19);14038-46
[PubMed:8188684] [WorldCat.org] (P p)

D W Hanlon, C Ying, G W Ordal
Purification and reconstitution of the methyl-accepting chemotaxis proteins from Bacillus subtilis.
Biochim Biophys Acta: 1993, 1158(3);345-51
[PubMed:8251536] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

M S Thoelke, J M Casper, G W Ordal
Methyl group turnover on methyl-accepting chemotaxis proteins during chemotaxis by Bacillus subtilis.
J Biol Chem: 1990, 265(4);1928-32
[PubMed:2105313] [WorldCat.org] (P p)

M S Thoelke, J R Kirby, G W Ordal
Novel methyl transfer during chemotaxis in Bacillus subtilis.
Biochemistry: 1989, 28(13);5585-9
[PubMed:2505839] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

J A Ahlgren, G W Ordal
Methyl esterification of glutamic acid residues of methyl-accepting chemotaxis proteins in Bacillus subtilis.
Biochem J: 1983, 213(3);759-63
[PubMed:6137212] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)