KtrA

• Description: high affinity potassium transporter KtrAB, peripheric membrane component (proton symport)
  
  

Gene name	ktrA
Synonyms	yuaA
Essential	no
Product	high affinity potassium transporter KtrAB, peripheric membrane component (proton symport)
Function	potassium uptake
Metabolic function and regulation of this protein in SubtiPathways: Stress
MW, pI	24 kDa, 5.981
Gene length, protein length	666 bp, 222 aa
Immediate neighbours	yuaB, ktrB
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU31090

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: no entry

• SubtiList entry: [1]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family:

• Paralogous protein(s): KtrC

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions: KtrA-KtrB, KtrA-KtrB PubMed

• Localization: cell membrane (according to Swiss-Prot), peripheral membrane protein PubMed

Database entries

• Structure: 1LSU (complex with NADH), 2HMW ( complex with ATP)

• UniProt: O32080

• KEGG entry: [2]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: ktrA-ktrB PubMed

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation:

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

Labs working on this gene/protein

Erhard Bremer, University of Marburg, Germany homepage

References

Jeffrey E Barrick, Keith A Corbino, Wade C Winkler, Ali Nahvi, Maumita Mandal, Jennifer Collins, Mark Lee, Adam Roth, Narasimhan Sudarsan, Inbal Jona, J Kenneth Wickiser, Ronald R Breaker
New RNA motifs suggest an expanded scope for riboswitches in bacterial genetic control.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A: 2004, 101(17);6421-6
[PubMed:15096624] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Gudrun Holtmann, Evert P Bakker, Nobuyuki Uozumi, Erhard Bremer
KtrAB and KtrCD: two K+ uptake systems in Bacillus subtilis and their role in adaptation to hypertonicity.
J Bacteriol: 2003, 185(4);1289-98
[PubMed:12562800] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)