NarG

• Description: nitrate reductase (alpha subunit)
  
  

Gene name	narG
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	nitrate reductase (alpha subunit)
Function	nitrate respiration, nitrogen assimilation
MW, pI	138 kDa, 6.061
Gene length, protein length	3684 bp, 1228 aa
Immediate neighbours	narH, arfM
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

respiration, membrane proteins

This gene is a member of the following regulons

Fnr regulon

The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU37280

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: Nitrite + acceptor = nitrate + reduced acceptor (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Protein family: prokaryotic molybdopterin-containing oxidoreductase family (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s): contains an iron-sulfur cluster

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:

• Localization:
  • cell membrane (according to Swiss-Prot)

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: P42175

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: narG-narH-narJ-narI PubMed

• Expression browser: narG PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigA PubMed

• Regulation:
  • expressed under anaerobic conditions (Fnr) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • Fnr: transcription activation PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody: