McpC

• Description: membrane-bound chemotaxis receptor, methyl-accepting chemotaxis protein
  
  

Gene name	mcpC
Synonyms	prg71
Essential	no
Product	methyl-accepting chemotaxis protein
Function	control of chemotaxis threonine, glycine, serine, lysine, valine and arginine
MW, pI	71 kDa, 5.174
Gene length, protein length	1962 bp, 654 aa
Immediate neighbours	ykwB, ykwC
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
Genetic context This image was kindly provided by SubtiList

Categories containing this gene/protein

motility and chemotaxis, membrane proteins

This gene is a member of the following regulons

SigD regulon

The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU13950

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):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:

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

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: P54576

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: mcpC PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigD PubMed

• Regulation:

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information:
  • in minimal medium, McpC is present with 2,800 +/- 640 molecules per cell PubMed

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody: