Gene Details


gene name: fimE


locus tag k12ECK4304 Crenarchaeota Euryarchaeota Nanoarcheota Alphaproteobacteria Betaproteobacteria Gammaproteobacteria Deltaproteobacteria Epsilonproteobacteria Cyanobacteria Actinobacteridae Firmicutes Spirochaetes others Protist Microsporidia Fungi Metazoa Plantae
information on phylogenetic profile
locus tag mg1655b4313
locus tag w3110JW4276
gene name k12fimE
locus namefimE
synonyms of locus namepilH, hyp

scop id56349
superfamilyDNA breaking-rejoining enzymes
pfam idPF00589
pfam domainPhage integrase family
TIGRFAMno information

swissprot nameFIME_ECOLI
descriptionType 1 fimbriae regulatory protein fimE.
seq length198
fastaseq

go idGO:0005737; GO:0009289; GO:0006310; GO:0009297
go termcytoplasm; fimbria; DNA recombination; fimbrial biogenesis

gene product descriptiontyrosine recombinase/inversion of on/off regulator of fimA
comment gene product descriptioncatalyses inversion of the switch for fimA expression from the ON to the OFF phase
evidenceE
context
gene product descRegulator
cell locationCytoplasmic
featuresCDS

functional category codeL
functional categoryReplication, recombination and repair

reference #1Differential temperature modulation by H-NS of the fimB and fimE recombinase genes which control the orientation of the type 1 fimbrial phase switch.

Olsen P., Schembri M., Gally D., Klemm P. (FEMS Microbiol Lett. 1998 May 1; 162(1):17-23)
reference #2Regulation of the phase switch controlling expression of type 1 fimbriae in Escherichia coli.

Pallesen L., Madsen O., Klemm P. (Mol Microbiol. 1989 Jul; 3(7):925-31)
reference #3Type 1 fimbriation and fimE mutants of Escherichia coli K-12.

Blomfield I., McClain M., Princ J., Calie P., Eisenstein B. (J Bacteriol. 1991 Sep; 173(17):5298-307)
reference #4Roles of fimB and fimE in site-specific DNA inversion associated with phase variation of type 1 fimbriae in Escherichia coli.

McClain M., Blomfield I., Eisenstein B. (J Bacteriol. 1991 Sep; 173(17):5308-14)
reference #5Two regulatory fim genes, fimB and fimE, control the phase variation of type 1 fimbriae in Escherichia coli.

Klemm P. (EMBO J. 1986 Jun; 5(6):1389-93)

phylogenetic profile
 
1 1 57 1 1 1 75 63 52 1 1 1 80 84 84 78 76 67 1 83
87 76 75 77 85 89 85 85 89 80 50 1 82 61 61 65 54 53 67 60
60 76 64 64 51 1 1 63 1 90 91 90 83 83 89 82 80 78 82 1
53 1 1 1 1 1 1 69 53 83 77 1 50 58 58 52 94 94 94 71
80 82 70 74 66 71 74 72 1 75 76 76 76 76 1 1 1 1 1 1
1 1 93 1 75 75 75 75 75 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 66
1 83 1 1 1 1 1 82 404 402 400 82 1 1 76 87 75 203 89 84
87 191 191 191 77 404 404 77 74 71 1 78 80 72 74 74 74 73 1 75
71 68 68 68 67 72 70 77 1 1 73 84 70 1 1 1 71 59 70 71
1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1