ComER

• Description: non-essential gene for competence
  
  

Gene name	comER
Synonyms	comD, comED
Essential	no
Product	putative pyrroline-5'-carboxylate reductase
Function	genetic compentence
MW, pI	30 kDa, 6.183
Gene length, protein length	819 bp, 273 aa
Immediate neighbours	comEA, yqeM
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
Genetic context This image was kindly provided by SubtiList

Categories containing this gene/protein

genetic competence, membrane proteins

The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU25600

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family: pyrroline-5-carboxylate reductase family (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:

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

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: P39696

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: comER PubMed

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation: repressed by casamino acids PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information:
  • An antisense RNA is predicted for comER PubMed

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody: