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Gene Report : caiF
PEC Original Annotations
Essentiality
     Class non-essential
     References (PMID)
Escherichia coli and Salmonella, Cellular and Molecular Biology Second Edition. ASM Press. 1996
Neidhart, F.C.
     Deletion OCR28 (D)  
Related gene (W3110 PEC)
     Gene Search Search MG1655 PEC by gene name:  caiF
Related strains
     Strains Search Search strains by gene name:  caiF   Search strains by all related name:  caiF b0034 ECK0035 JW0033

General information  (Go to Linear View:)
 Gene Name caiF  
 Alternative name b0034,ECK0035,JW0033  
 Location, Length 34,300 - 34,695 (  +  ) ;   0.74 min ; 396 (bp) ,   131 (aa) Go to Linear View
 Product DNA-binding transcriptional activator  
 Operon Name caiF  
 Note transcriptional regulator of cai operon; GO_component: GO:0005737 - cytoplasm; GO_function: GO:0016563 - transcription activator activity; GO_process: GO:0009310 - amine catabolic process; GO_process: GO:0006350 - transcription  
 Function regulator; Central intermediary metabolism: Pool, multipurpose conversions  
 Gene Ontology GO:0006350 ; transcription ( caiF )
GO:0006355 ; regulation of transcription, DNA-dependent ( caiF )
 PID 87081680  
 EC number
  (KEGG Pathway)
 
 
SWISS-PROT  ( Show details [ 1 more] )
  botton Entry name(Acc.no) CAIF_ECOLI ( Q47081 ; P75622 )
    -  Protein name Transcriptional activatory protein caiF.  
    -  Synonyms  
    -  Gene name Name=caiF; OrderedLocusNames=b0034, SF0031, S0033;  

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View Location
   25.0  –  50.0 (KBP)

Homology Analysis
BLAST
    Bacteria
         GTOP caiF (  homologous genes of other bacterias  )  
    PDB     (database updated : 2007.02.20 )
        PSI-BLAST  
    SWISS-PROT     (database updated : 2007.02.20 )
         BLAST Transcriptional activatory protein caiF  
         PSI-BLAST Transcriptional activatory protein caiF
    nr     (database updated : 2007.02.20 )
         BLAST transcriptional regulator of cai operon [Shigella flexneri 5 str. 8401]  
Pfam 28.0   (database updated : 2015-05 )
    Pfam
PROSITE
    PROSITE ASN_GLYCOSYLATION    PKC_PHOSPHO_SITE    MYRISTYL     

Other Cross-Reference
    EcoCyc caiF 

MMBR References
J Bacteriol. 1996;178:1248-1257
Identification and characterization of the caiF gene encoding a potential transcriptional activator of carnitine metabolism in Escherichia coli.
Eichler, K., A. Buchet, R. Lemke, H. P. Kleber, and M. A. Mandrand-Berthelot.
J Bacteriol. 1998;180:2599-2608
Regulation of the carnitine pathway in Escherichia coli: investigation of the cai-fix divergent promoter region.
Buchet, A., K. Eichler, and M. A. Mandrand-Berthelot.

Sequences
Amino acid
FASTA format
0001 MCEGYVEKPL YLLIAEWMMA ENRWVIAREI SIHFDIEHSK AVNTLTYILS EVTEISCEVK MIPNKLEGRG 
0071 CQCQRLVKVV DIDEQIYARL RNNSREKLVG VRKTPRIPAV PLTELNREQK WQMMLSKSMR R

Nucleotide
FASTA format

View sequence out neighbor 100bp
-100                                             GTTGCATACT ATCGATATAT CCACAATTTT 
-070 AATATGGCCT TGTTTAATTG CTTCAAAACG AGTCATAGCC AGACTTTTAA TTTGTGAAAC TGGAGTTCGT 
0001 atgtgtgaag gatatgttga aaaaccactc tacttgttaa tcgccgaatg gatgatggct gaaaatcggt 
0071 gggtgatagc aagagagatc tctattcatt tcgatattga acacagcaag gcggttaata ccctgactta 
0141 tattctgtcg gaagtcacag aaataagctg cgaagttaag atgatcccta ataagctgga agggcgggga 
0211 tgccagtgtc agcgactggt taaagtggtc gatatcgatg agcaaattta cgcgcgcctg cgcaataaca 
0281 gtcgggaaaa attagtcggt gtaagaaaga cgccgcgtat tcctgccgtt ccgctcacgg aacttaaccg 
0351 cgagcagaag tggcagatga tgttgtcaaa gagtatgcgt cgttaaTTTT ATCTCGTTGA TACCGGGCGT 
0421 CCTGCTTGCC AGATGCGATG TTGTAGCATC TTATCCAGCA ACCAGGTCGC ATCCGGCAAG ATCACCGTTT 
0491 AGGCGT