Med

• Description: positive regulator of comK
  
  

Gene name	med
Synonyms	yjaW
Essential	no
Product	positive regulator of comK
Function	regulation of competence
MW, pI	35 kDa, 4.599
Gene length, protein length	951 bp, 317 aa
Immediate neighbours	yjaV, comZ
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU11300

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family: BMP lipoprotein 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:

• UniProt: O32436

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: med-comZ PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigA PubMed

• 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: