KipA

• Description: antagonist of KipI
  
  

Gene name	kipA
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	antagonist of KipI
Function	initiation of sporulation
MW, pI	36 kDa, 5.465
Gene length, protein length	1011 bp, 337 aa
Immediate neighbours	kipI, kipR
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU04090

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

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: KipA-KipI PubMed

• Localization:

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: Q7WY77

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: ycsF-ycsG-ycsI-kipI-kipA-kipR-ycsK PubMed

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation:

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

L Wang, R Grau, M Perego, J A Hoch
A novel histidine kinase inhibitor regulating development in Bacillus subtilis.
Genes Dev: 1997, 11(19);2569-79
[PubMed:9334321] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)