CheA

• Description: two-component sensor kinase, chemotactic signal modulator
  
  

Gene name	cheA
Synonyms	cheN
Essential	no
Product	two-component sensor kinase
Function	chemotactic signal modulator
MW, pI	74 kDa, 4.452
Gene length, protein length	2013 bp, 671 aa
Immediate neighbours	cheB, cheW
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU16430

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: ATP + protein L-histidine = ADP + protein N-phospho-L-histidine (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Protein family:

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions: CheA-CheC, CheA-McpB

• Localization: membrane (according to Swiss-Prot)

Database entries

• Structure:

• Swiss prot entry: P29072

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon:

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation:
  • repressed under conditions that trigger sporulation (Spo0A) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • Spo0A: transcription repression PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

1. Author1, Author2 & Author3 (year) Title Journal volume: page-page. PubMed