YvaQ

• Description: membrane-bound chemotaxis receptor, similar to methyl-accepting chemotaxis protein
  
  

Gene name	yvaQ
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	membrane-bound chemotaxis receptor
Function	control of chemotaxis
MW, pI	62 kDa, 4.616
Gene length, protein length	1698 bp, 566 aa
Immediate neighbours	catR, opuBD
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
Genetic context This image was kindly provided by SubtiList
Expression at a glance   PubMed

Categories containing this gene/protein

motility and chemotaxis, membrane proteins

The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU33690

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: no entry

• SubtiList entry: [1]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family:

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

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• Localization:
  • cell membrane PubMed

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: O32239

• KEGG entry: [2]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon:

• Expression browser: yvaQ PubMed

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation:

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• Additional information:
  • in minimal medium, YvaQ is present with 1,400 +/- 380 molecules per cell PubMed

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Vincent J Cannistraro, George D Glekas, Christopher V Rao, George W Ordal
Cellular stoichiometry of the chemotaxis proteins in Bacillus subtilis.
J Bacteriol: 2011, 193(13);3220-7
[PubMed:21515776] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

José E González-Pastor, Errett C Hobbs, Richard Losick
Cannibalism by sporulating bacteria.
Science: 2003, 301(5632);510-3
[PubMed:12817086] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)