ComK

• Description: competence transcription factor (CTF)
  
  

Gene name	comK
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	competence transcription factor (CTF)
Function	regulation of competence and DNA uptake
Metabolic function and regulation of this protein in SubtiPathways: Nucleotides (regulation)
MW, pI	22 kDa, 7.669
Gene length, protein length	576 bp, 192 aa
Immediate neighbours	yhzC, yhxD
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU10420

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: MecA-ComK PubMed

• Localization:

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: P40396

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: comK PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigA PubMed

• Regulation:
  • repressed by casamino acids PubMed
  • repressed by Rok PubMed
  • repressed during growth in the presence of branched chain amino acids (CodY) PubMed
  • repressed during logrithmic growth (AbrB) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • Rok: transcription repression PubMed
  • CodY: transcription repression PubMed
  • AbrB: transcription repression PubMed
  • ComK: transcription activation (autoregulation) PubMed
  • DegU (non-phosphorylated form): transcription activation PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

Labs working on this gene/protein

Oscar Kuipers, University of Groningen, The Netherlands Homepage

References

Reviews

Daniel Schultz, Peter G Wolynes, Eshel Ben Jacob, José N Onuchic
Deciding fate in adverse times: sporulation and competence in Bacillus subtilis.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A: 2009, 106(50);21027-34
[PubMed:19995980] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Akos T Kovács, Wiep Klaas Smits, Aleksandra M Mirończuk, Oscar P Kuipers
Ubiquitous late competence genes in Bacillus species indicate the presence of functional DNA uptake machineries.
Environ Microbiol: 2009, 11(8);1911-22
[PubMed:19453701] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Leendert W Hamoen, Gerard Venema, Oscar P Kuipers
Controlling competence in Bacillus subtilis: shared use of regulators.
Microbiology (Reading): 2003, 149(Pt 1);9-17
[PubMed:12576575] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)