FliP

• Description: flagellar protein required for flagellar formation
  
  

Gene name	fliP
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	flagellar protein required for flagellar formation
Function	movement and chemotaxis
MW, pI	24 kDa, 5.276
Gene length, protein length	663 bp, 221 aa
Immediate neighbours	fliZ, fliQ
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU16350

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family: fliP/mopC/spaP 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: P35528

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon:

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation:
  • repressed under conditions that trigger sporulation (Spo0A) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • Spo0A: transcription repression PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Virginie Molle, Masaya Fujita, Shane T Jensen, Patrick Eichenberger, José E González-Pastor, Jun S Liu, Richard Losick
The Spo0A regulon of Bacillus subtilis.
Mol Microbiol: 2003, 50(5);1683-701
[PubMed:14651647] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

P B Carpenter, A R Zuberi, G W Ordal
Bacillus subtilis flagellar proteins FliP, FliQ, FliR and FlhB are related to Shigella flexneri virulence factors.
Gene: 1993, 137(2);243-5
[PubMed:8299954] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

D S Bischoff, M D Weinreich, G W Ordal
Nucleotide sequences of Bacillus subtilis flagellar biosynthetic genes fliP and fliQ and identification of a novel flagellar gene, fliZ.
J Bacteriol: 1992, 174(12);4017-25
[PubMed:1597417] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)