Hag

• Description: flagellin protein, about 20,000 subunits make up one flagellum
  
  

Gene name	hag
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	flagellin protein
Function	motility and chemotaxis
Gene expression levels in SubtiExpress: hag
Interactions involving this protein in SubtInteract: Hag
MW, pI	32 kDa, 4.782
Gene length, protein length	912 bp, 304 aa
Immediate neighbours	yvyC, csrA
Sequences	Protein DNA DNA_with_flanks
Genetic context This image was kindly provided by SubtiList
Expression at a glance   PubMed

Categories containing this gene/protein

motility and chemotaxis

This gene is a member of the following regulons

CodY regulon, CsrA regulon, ScoC regulon, SigD regulon

The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU35360

Phenotypes of a mutant

No swarming motility on B medium. PubMed

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family: bacterial flagellin family (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s): YvzB (C-terminal domain of Hag)

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:
  • FlhA-Hag PubMed
  • FlhA-(FliS-Hag) PubMed
  • FliS-Hag PubMed
  • FliW-Hag PubMed

• Localization:
  • extracellular (no signal peptide), major component of the secretome PubMed
  • membrane PubMed

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: P02968

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: hag PubMed

• Expression browser: hag PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigD PubMed

• Regulation:
  • repressed during growth in the presence of branched chain amino acids (CodY) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • CodY: transcription repression PubMed
  • CsrA: translation inhibition PubMed
  • ScoC: transcription repression PubMed

• Additional information:
  • the hag gene is strongly overexpressed in a ymdB mutant (loss of bistable gene expression) PubMed

Biological materials

• Mutant: GP901 (aphA3), GP902 (tet), both available in Stülke lab
  • 1A915 ( hag::cat), PubMed, available at BGSC
  • 1A783 ( hag::erm), PubMed, available at BGSC
  • 1A842 ( hag::kan), PubMed, available at BGSC

• Expression vector:
  • expression in B. subtilis, in pBQ200: pGP1089, available in Stülke lab

• lacZ fusion: pGP1035 (in pAC6), pGP755 (in pAC7), there is also a series of promoter deletion variants in pAC6 and pAC7, all available in Stülke lab

• GFP fusion: BP494 (bglS:: (hag-promoter-cfp-aphA3)), BP496 (amyE:: (hag-promoter-iyfp-cat)), available in Stülke lab

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Reviews

Tony Romeo, Christopher A Vakulskas, Paul Babitzke
Post-transcriptional regulation on a global scale: form and function of Csr/Rsm systems.
Environ Microbiol: 2013, 15(2);313-24
[PubMed:22672726] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)