RapA

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  • Description: response regulator aspartate phosphatase

Gene name rapA
Synonyms gsiAA, spo0L
Essential no
Product response regulator aspartate phosphatase
Function control of sporulation initiation
MW, pI 44 kDa, 4.848
Gene length, protein length 1134 bp, 378 aa
Immediate neighbours yjoB, phrA
Get the DNA and protein sequences
(Barbe et al., 2009)
Genetic context
RapA context.gif
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The gene

Basic information

  • Locus tag: BSU12430

Phenotypes of a mutant

Database entries

  • DBTBS entry: [1]
  • SubtiList entry: [2]

Additional information

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

  • Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:
  • Protein family: RAP family (according to Swiss-Prot)
  • Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

  • Kinetic information:
  • Domains:
  • Modification:
  • Cofactor(s):
  • Effectors of protein activity:
  • Localization:

Database entries

  • Structure:
  • KEGG entry: [3]
  • E.C. number:

Additional information

Expression and regulation

  • Operon:
  • Regulation: repressed by glucose (4.2-fold) (CcpA) PubMed, repressed by casamino acids PubMed
    • repressed under conditions that trigger sporulation (Spo0A) PubMed
    • repressed during growth in the presence of branched chain amino acids (CodY) PubMed
  • Regulatory mechanism: CcpA: transcription repression
  • Additional information:

Biological materials

  • Mutant:
  • Expression vector:
  • lacZ fusion:
  • GFP fusion:
  • two-hybrid system:
  • Antibody:

Labs working on this gene/protein

Your additional remarks

References

Ilka B Bischofs, Joshua A Hug, Aiwen W Liu, Denise M Wolf, Adam P Arkin
Complexity in bacterial cell-cell communication: quorum signal integration and subpopulation signaling in the Bacillus subtilis phosphorelay.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A: 2009, 106(16);6459-64
[PubMed:19380751] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Virginie Molle, Masaya Fujita, Shane T Jensen, Patrick Eichenberger, José E González-Pastor, Jun S Liu, Richard Losick
The Spo0A regulon of Bacillus subtilis.
Mol Microbiol: 2003, 50(5);1683-701
[PubMed:14651647] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Hans-Matti Blencke, Georg Homuth, Holger Ludwig, Ulrike Mäder, Michael Hecker, Jörg Stülke
Transcriptional profiling of gene expression in response to glucose in Bacillus subtilis: regulation of the central metabolic pathways.
Metab Eng: 2003, 5(2);133-49
[PubMed:12850135] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Virginie Molle, Yoshiko Nakaura, Robert P Shivers, Hirotake Yamaguchi, Richard Losick, Yasutaro Fujita, Abraham L Sonenshein
Additional targets of the Bacillus subtilis global regulator CodY identified by chromatin immunoprecipitation and genome-wide transcript analysis.
J Bacteriol: 2003, 185(6);1911-22
[PubMed:12618455] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Ulrike Mäder, Georg Homuth, Christian Scharf, Knut Büttner, Rüdiger Bode, Michael Hecker
Transcriptome and proteome analysis of Bacillus subtilis gene expression modulated by amino acid availability.
J Bacteriol: 2002, 184(15);4288-95
[PubMed:12107147] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)


  1. Author1, Author2 & Author3 (year) Title Journal volume: page-page. PubMed