GerKA

• Description: nutrient receptor
  
  

Gene name	gerKA
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	nutrient receptor
Function	germination response to the combination of glucose, fructose, aspartate, and KCl
MW, pI	60 kDa, 5.206
Gene length, protein length	1632 bp, 544 aa
Immediate neighbours	yczF, gerKC
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU03700

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

Categories containing this gene/protein

germination, membrane proteins

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family: gerABKA 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: cell membrane (according to Swiss-Prot)

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: P49939

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: gerKA-gerKC-gerKB (according to DBTBS)

• Sigma factor: SigG PubMed

• Regulation:
  • expressed during sporulation (SigG, SpoVT) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • SpoVT: transcription repression PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody: