RemA

• Description: involved in the activation of biofilm matrix biosynthetic operons, acts in parallel to SinR, AbrB, and DegU
  
  

Gene name	remA
Synonyms	ylzA
Essential	no
Product	regulator of the extracellular matrix
Function	control of biofilm formation
Metabolic function and regulation of this protein in SubtiPathways: Nucleotides (regulation)
MW, pI	9 kDa, 7.178
Gene length, protein length	267 bp, 89 aa
Immediate neighbours	yloC, gmk
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU15670

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: no entry

• SubtiList entry: [1]

Categories containing this gene/protein

biofilm formation

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family: UPF0296 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:

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: Q7WY72

• KEGG entry: [2]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon:

• 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

Daniel Kearns, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA, homepage