KipI

• Description: inhibitor of KinA
  
  

Gene name	kipI
Synonyms	ycsJ
Essential	no
Product	inhibitor of KinA
Function	control of the phosphorelay, initiation of sporulation
MW, pI	26 kDa, 4.656
Gene length, protein length	720 bp, 240 aa
Immediate neighbours	ycsI, kipA
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU04080

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: binding of KipA prevents KipI from binding to KinA PubMed

• Interactions: KipI-KinA PubMed, KipI-KipA PubMed

• Localization:

Database entries

• Structure: 2ZP2

• UniProt: P60495

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: ycsF-ycsG-ycsI-kipI-kipA-kipR-lipC PubMed

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation:

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • KipR: transcription repression PubMed
  • TnrA: transcription activation PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

L Wang, R Grau, M Perego, J A Hoch
A novel histidine kinase inhibitor regulating development in Bacillus subtilis.
Genes Dev: 1997, 11(19);2569-79
[PubMed:9334321] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)