HemAT

• Description: soluble chemotaxis receptor, heme-containing O(2) sensor protein
  
  

Gene name	hemAT
Synonyms	yhfV
Essential	no
Product	haem-based aerotactic transducer
Function	movement towards oxygen
MW, pI	48 kDa, 5.441
Gene length, protein length	1296 bp, 432 aa
Immediate neighbours	yhfU, yhfW
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

This gene is a member of the following regulons

SigD regulon

The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU10380

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): heme

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:

• Localization:
  • forms clusters at the cell poles PubMed

Database entries

• Structure: 1OR4 (in cyano-liganded form), 1OR6

• UniProt: O07621

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: hemAT PubMed

• Expression browser: hemAT PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigD PubMed

• Regulation:

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information:
  • in minimal medium, HemAT is present with 19,000 +/- 3,900 molecules per cell PubMed

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Additional publications: PubMed