ChaA

• Description: H+/Ca2+ exchanger
  
  

Gene name	chaA
Synonyms	yfkE
Essential	no
Product	calcium transport in/out via proton antiporter
Function	calcium uptake/ export
MW, pI	37 kDa, 5.206
Gene length, protein length	1053 bp, 351 aa
Immediate neighbours	yfkF, yfkD
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU07920

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: no entry

• SubtiList entry: [1]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family:

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

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Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: O34840

• KEGG entry: [2]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: chaA-yfkD PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigG, SigB PubMed

• Regulation: expressed in the forespore (SigG) PubMed

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Biological materials

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• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

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References

Makoto Fujisawa, Yuko Wada, Takahiro Tsuchiya, Masahiro Ito
Characterization of Bacillus subtilis YfkE (ChaA): a calcium-specific Ca2+/H+ antiporter of the CaCA family.
Arch Microbiol: 2009, 191(8);649-57
[PubMed:19543710] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)