CsaA

• Description: molecular chaperone involved in protein secretion
  
  

Gene name	csaA
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	molecular chaperone
Function	protein secretion
MW, pI	11 kDa, 8.691
Gene length, protein length	330 bp, 110 aa
Immediate neighbours	bsrF, yobQ
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU19040

Phenotypes of a mutant

essential

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: no entry

• SubtiList entry: [1]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: Secretion associated chaperone. Assumed functional analogue of E. coli SecB

• Protein family: FIG1 subfamily (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains: CsaA contains a tRNA binding domain.

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions: CsaA-SdpC, CsaA-SecA, CsaA-CsaA

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

Database entries

• Structure: 2NZO

• Swiss prot entry: P37584

• KEGG entry: [2]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon:

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation:

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant: Pspac-csaA PubMed

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

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