ComFA

• Description: late competence protein required for DNA binding and uptake
  
  

Gene name	comFA
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	DNA-binding protein
Function	genetic transformation
MW, pI	52 kDa, 9.824
Gene length, protein length	1389 bp, 463 aa
Immediate neighbours	comFB, yviA
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag:

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family: helicase 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 PubMed,localizes to cell poles in competent cells PubMed

Database entries

• Structure:

• Swiss prot entry: P39145

• KEGG entry: BSU35470

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon:

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation:

• Regulatory mechanism:

• 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