ComEB

• Description: late competence protein required for DNA binding and uptake
  
  

Gene name	comEB
Synonyms	comD
Essential	no
Product	late competence protein
Function	genetic compentence
Metabolic function and regulation of this protein in SubtiPathways: Nucleotides (regulation)
MW, pI	20 kDa, 5.368
Gene length, protein length	567 bp, 189 aa
Immediate neighbours	comEC, comEA
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU25580

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family: cytidine and deoxycytidylate deaminase 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: cell membrane (according to Swiss-Prot)

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: P32393

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: comEA-comEB-comEC PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigA PubMed

• Regulation:

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • post-translational control by ComN PubMed
  • yutB is required for transcription PubMed
  • ComK: transcription activation PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

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