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Gene Report : caiE
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:  caiE
Related strains
     Strains Search Search strains by gene name:  caiE   Search strains by all related name:  caiE b0035 ECK0036 JW5004

General information  (Go to Linear View:)
 Gene Name caiE  
 Alternative name b0035,ECK0036,JW5004  
 Location, Length 34,781 - 35,371 (  -  ) ;   0.75 min ; 591 (bp) ,   196 (aa) Go to Linear View
 Product stimulator of CaiD and CaiB enzyme activities  
 Operon Name caiTABCDE  
 Note possible synthesis of cofactor for carnitine racemase and dehydratase; GO_process: GO:0009310 - amine catabolic process; GO_process: GO:0042413 - carnitine catabolic process  
 Function putative enzyme; Central intermediary metabolism: Pool, multipurpose conversions  
 Gene Ontology GO:0008415 ; acyltransferase activity ( caiE )
GO:0016740 ; transferase activity ( caiE )
 PID 87081681  
 EC number
  (KEGG Pathway)
 
 
SWISS-PROT  ( Show details [ 2 more] )
  botton Entry name(Acc.no) CAIE_ECOLI ( P39206 )
    -  Protein name Carnitine operon protein caiE.  
    -  Synonyms  
    -  Gene name Name=caiE; OrderedLocusNames=b0035;  

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View Location
   25.0  –  50.0 (KBP)

Homology Analysis
BLAST
    Bacteria
         GTOP caiE (  homologous genes of other bacterias  )  
    PDB     (database updated : 2007.02.20 )
         PSI-BLAST Chain A, Structure Of Ferripyochelin Binding Protein From Pyrococcus Horikoshii Ot3  
    SWISS-PROT     (database updated : 2007.02.20 )
         BLAST Carnitine operon protein caiE  
         PSI-BLAST Carnitine operon protein caiE
    nr     (database updated : 2007.02.20 )
         BLAST predicted acyl transferase [Escherichia coli W3110]  
Pfam 28.0   (database updated : 2015-05 )
    Pfam
PROSITE
    PROSITE ASN_GLYCOSYLATION    PKC_PHOSPHO_SITE    CK2_PHOSPHO_SITE    MYRISTYL    RGD     

Other Cross-Reference
    COG COG0663R 
    EcoCyc caiE 

MMBR References
Mol Microbiol. 1994;13(5):775-86.
Molecular characterization of the cai operon necessary for carnitine metabolism in Escherichia coli.
Eichler K, Bourgis F, Buchet A, Kleber HP, Mandrand-Berthelot MA. ( 7815937 )
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 MSYYAFEGLI PVVHPTAFVH PSAVLIGDVI VGAGVYIGPL ASLRGDYGRL IVQAGANIQD GCIMHGYCDT 
0071 DTIVGENGHI GHGAILHGCL IGRDALVGMN SVIMDGAVIG EESIVAAMSF VKAGFRGEKR QLLMGTPARA 
0141 VRNVSDDELH WKRLNTKEYQ DLVGRCHVSL HETQPLRQME ENRPRLQGTT DVTPKR

Nucleotide
FASTA format

View sequence out neighbor 100bp
-100                                             tgaaacacta tccatcggtt ctgcattcgg 
-070 aagatgccat tgaagggccg ctggcgtttg ccgagaagcg cgatccggtg tggaaaggac gttaacaacc 
0001 gtgagctatt acgcctttga ggggttaatt ccggtggttc acccgacggc gtttgtccat cccagtgccg 
0071 tcttgattgg cgatgtgatt gtgggagccg gtgtctacat cggcccactc gcctcactgc gtggtgacta 
0141 cgggcggttg atcgtgcaag cgggagccaa tattcaggat ggctgcatta tgcatggcta ctgcgacact 
0211 gacactatcg ttggggaaaa cggccatatc gggcacggag cgatcctgca tggttgtttg attggtcgcg 
0281 atgcattggt cgggatgaac agcgtgatta tggatggcgc ggtcattggc gaagagagca ttgttgccgc 
0351 catgagcttt gtcaaagcgg gctttcgcgg cgagaaacgc cagttgttga tgggtacgcc agcccgcgct 
0421 gtacgcaatg ttagtgacga cgagttacac tggaaacggt tgaataccaa agagtatcag gatcttgtcg 
0491 ggcgctgtca tgtatcgtta catgaaacgc agccactgag gcaaatggag gaaaatcgcc cccgtttgca 
0561 ggggacgacg gatgtgacgc ctaaacggtg atcttgccgg atgcgacctg gttgctggat aagatgctac 
0631 aacatcgcat ctggcaagca ggacgcccgg tatcaacgag ataaaattaa cgacgcatac t