IspA

• Description: geranyltransferase
  
  

Gene name	ispA
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	geranyltransferase
Function	biosynthesis of isoprenoids
MW, pI	33 kDa, 4.522
Gene length, protein length	957 bp, 319 aa
Immediate neighbours	metE, rsbRB
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU13190

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: Geranyl diphosphate + isopentenyl diphosphate = diphosphate + trans,trans-farnesyl diphosphate (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Protein family: FPP/GGPP synthetase family (according to Swiss-Prot) peptidase S8 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: cytoplasm (according to Swiss-Prot)

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: P11018

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number: 2.5.1.10

Expression and regulation

• Operon: ispA (according to DBTBS)

• Sigma factor: SigA PubMed

• Regulation:

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody: