ComZ

• Description: late competence gene
  
  

Gene name	comZ
Synonyms	yjzA
Essential	no
Product	unknown
Function	compentence
MW, pI	7 kDa, 4.37
Gene length, protein length	189 bp, 63 aa
Immediate neighbours	med, yjzB
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU11310

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

Categories containing this gene/protein

genetic competence

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:

• Interactions:

• Localization:

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: O32437

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: med-comZ PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigA PubMed

• Regulation:
  • repressed under conditions that trigger sporulation (Spo0A) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • Spo0A: transcription repression PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Virginie Molle, Masaya Fujita, Shane T Jensen, Patrick Eichenberger, José E González-Pastor, Jun S Liu, Richard Losick
The Spo0A regulon of Bacillus subtilis.
Mol Microbiol: 2003, 50(5);1683-701
[PubMed:14651647] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

M Ogura, T Tanaka
Bacillus subtilis comZ (yjzA) negatively affects expression of comG but not comK.
J Bacteriol: 2000, 182(17);4992-4
[PubMed:10940045] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

M Ogura, Y Ohshiro, S Hirao, T Tanaka
A new Bacillus subtilis gene, med, encodes a positive regulator of comK.
J Bacteriol: 1997, 179(20);6244-53
[PubMed:9335269] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)