CinA

• Description: plays a nucleoid-associated general role in cells entering stationary phase
  
  

Gene name	cinA
Synonyms	ymfO, yzlB
Essential	no
Product	unknown
Function	unknown
MW, pI	45 kDa, 5.403
Gene length, protein length	1248 bp, 416 aa
Immediate neighbours	pgsA, recA
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU16930

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: no entry

• SubtiList entry: [1]

Categories containing this gene/protein

proteins of unknown function

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family: cinA 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: associated with the nucleoid PubMed

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: P46323

• KEGG entry: [2]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon:

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation:
  • induced during stationary phase PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Christine Kaimer, Peter L Graumann
Bacillus subtilis CinA is a stationary phase-induced protein that localizes to the nucleoid and plays a minor role in competent cells.
Arch Microbiol: 2010, 192(7);549-57
[PubMed:20480359] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)