DivIVA

• Description: cell-division initiation protein (septum placement)
  
  

Gene name	divIVA
Synonyms	ylmJ
Essential	no
Product	cell-division initiation protein
Function	septum placement
MW, pI	19 kDa, 4.846
Gene length, protein length	492 bp, 164 aa
Immediate neighbours	ylmH, ileS
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Coordinates:

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family: gpsB family (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s): GpsB

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions: MinD-DivIVA, DivIVA-MinJ

• Localization: cytoplasm (according to Swiss-Prot)

Database entries

• Structure:

• Swiss prot entry: P71021

• KEGG entry: BSU15420

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon:

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation:

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

Labs working on this gene/protein

Tony Wilkinson, York University, U.K. homepage

Imrich Barak, Slovak Academy of Science, Bratislava, Slovakia homepage