KinB

• Description: two-component sensor kinase, initiation of sporulation
  
  

Gene name	kinB
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	two-component sensor kinase
Function	initiation of sporulation
MW, pI	47 kDa, 6.682
Gene length, protein length	1287 bp, 429 aa
Immediate neighbours	patB, kapB
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: ATP + protein L-histidine = ADP + protein N-phospho-L-histidine (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Protein family:

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions: KinB-Sda

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

Database entries

• Structure: 3D36 (from G. stearothermophilus, complex with Sda)

• Swiss prot entry: Q08430

• KEGG entry: BSU31450

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon:

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation: repressed by CodY PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism: CodY: transcription repression PubMed

• 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