CdsA

• Description: phosphatidate cytidylyltransferase
  
  

Gene name	cdsA
Synonyms
Essential	yes PubMed
Product	phosphatidate cytidylyltransferase
Function	biosynthesis of phospholipids
MW, pI	30 kDa, 7.866
Gene length, protein length	807 bp, 269 aa
Immediate neighbours	uppS, ispC
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU16540

Phenotypes of a mutant

essential PubMed

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: no entry

• SubtiList entry: [1]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: CTP + phosphatidate = diphosphate + CDP-diacylglycerol (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Protein family: CDS 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 (according to Swiss-Prot)

Database entries

• Structure:

• Swiss prot entry: O31752

• KEGG entry: [2]

• E.C. number: 2.7.7.41

Expression and regulation

• Operon:

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation:

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information: the mRNA is very stable (half-life > 15 min) PubMed

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

G Hambraeus, C von Wachenfeldt, L Hederstedt
Genome-wide survey of mRNA half-lives in Bacillus subtilis identifies extremely stable mRNAs.
Mol Genet Genomics: 2003, 269(5);706-14
[PubMed:12884008] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)