RapF

• Description: response regulator aspartate phosphatase, controls ComA activity
  
  

Gene name	rapF
Synonyms	ywhJ
Essential	no
Product	response regulator aspartate phosphatase
Function	control of ComA activity
MW, pI	45 kDa, 5.18
Gene length, protein length	1143 bp, 381 aa
Immediate neighbours	ywhK, phrF
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU37460

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: control of ComA activity PubMed

• Protein family: RAP family (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity: binding of PhrF to RapF prevents it from binding ComA PubMed

• Interactions: RapF-ComA PubMed, RapF-PhrF PubMed

• Localization:

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: P71002

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon:

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation: repressed by glucose (5-fold) (CcpA) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism: CcpA: transcription repression

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Cristina Bongiorni, Shu Ishikawa, Sophie Stephenson, Naotake Ogasawara, Marta Perego
Synergistic regulation of competence development in Bacillus subtilis by two Rap-Phr systems.
J Bacteriol: 2005, 187(13);4353-61
[PubMed:15968044] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Hans-Matti Blencke, Georg Homuth, Holger Ludwig, Ulrike Mäder, Michael Hecker, Jörg Stülke
Transcriptional profiling of gene expression in response to glucose in Bacillus subtilis: regulation of the central metabolic pathways.
Metab Eng: 2003, 5(2);133-49
[PubMed:12850135] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)