CtaA

• Description: heme A synthase
  
  

Gene name	ctaA
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	heme A synthase
Function	heme biosynthesis
MW, pI	33 kDa, 9.644
Gene length, protein length	918 bp, 306 aa
Immediate neighbours	pycA, ctaB
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU14870

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

Categories containing this gene/protein

biosynthesis of cofactors, sporulation proteins, membrane proteins

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family: COX15/ctaA family, Type 1 subfamily (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: P12946

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: ctaA PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigA PubMed, SigE PubMed

• Regulation:
  • expressed under anaerobic conditions (ResD) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • ResD: transcription activation PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody: