CopZ

• Description: copper transport protein, metallochaperone
  
  

Gene name	copZ
Synonyms	yvgY
Essential	no
Product	copper transport protein, metallochaperone
Function	resistance to copper
MW, pI	7 kDa, 4.162
Gene length, protein length	207 bp, 69 aa
Immediate neighbours	copA, csoR
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU33510

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: no entry

• SubtiList entry: [1]

Categories containing this gene/protein

transporters/ other, trace metal homeostasis (Cu, Zn, Ni, Mn, Mo), resistance against toxic metals

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): carries a tetranuclear Cu(I) cluster (as [Cu4(S-Cys)4(N-His)2] cluster) PubMed

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions: CopA-CopZ, for the transfer of the Cu(I) cluster PubMed

• Localization: cytoplasm (according to Swiss-Prot)

Database entries

• Structure: 2QIF

• UniProt: O32221

• KEGG entry: [2]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: copZ-copA PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigA PubMed
• Regulation:
  • induced by copper (CsoR) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • CsoR: transcription repression PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

Labs working on this gene/protein

John Helmann, Cornell University, USA Homepage