ComGA

• Description: late competence gene, putative ATPase
  
  

Gene name	comGA
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	unknown
Function	compentence
MW, pI	40 kDa, 8.893
Gene length, protein length	1068 bp, 356 aa
Immediate neighbours	comGB, corA
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
Genetic context This image was kindly provided by SubtiList

The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU24730

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

Categories containing this gene/protein

genetic competence, membrane proteins

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family: GSP E 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: peripheral membrane protein PubMed, localizes to cell poles in competent cellsPubMed

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: P25953

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: comGA-comGB-comGC-comGD-comGE-comGF-comGG-yqzE PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigA PubMed

• Regulation:
  • repressed by casamino acids PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • ComK: transcription activation PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody: