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3.A.7.2.1
Trw conjugation system of E. coli plasmid IncP. The hexameric form of TrwK is a catalytically active ATPase, much like the structurally related protein TrwB, the conjugative coupling protein (Arechaga et al, 2008), which is a structure-specific DNA-binding protein (Matilla et al., 2010)

Accession Number:O50333
Protein Name:TrwI
Length:342
Molecular Weight:35221.00
Species:Escherichia coli [562]
Number of TMSs:7
Location1 / Topology2 / Orientation3: Host membrane1 / Multi-pass membrane protein2
Substrate protein polypeptide chain

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Pfam: PF04610   

Gene Ontology

GO:0000747 P:conjugation with cellular fusion

References (9)

[1] “Genetic organization of the region involved in conjugative pilus synthesis, export and assembly of the incW plasmid R388.”  Bolland S.et.al.   9325277
[2] “Functional analysis of unique class II insertion sequence IS1071.”  Sota M.et.al.   16391056
[3] “DNA sequence of a plasmid-encoded dihydrofolate reductase.”  Swift G.et.al.   7022127
[4] “Site-specific recombination promotes linkage between trimethoprim-and sulfonamide resistance genes. Sequence characterization of dhfrV and sulI and a recombination active locus of Tn21.”  Sundstroem L.et.al.   3054482
[5] “Structural and functional analysis of the origin of conjugal transfer of the broad-host-range IncW plasmid R388 and comparison with the related IncN plasmid R46.”  Llosa M.et.al.   2038309
[6] “Genetic organization of the conjugal DNA processing region of the IncW plasmid R388.”  Llosa M.et.al.   8289274
[7] “Integrons found in different locations have identical 5' ends but variable 3' ends.”  Hall R.M.et.al.   7929000
[8] “Characterization and movement of the class 1 integron known as Tn2521 and Tn1405.”  Partridge S.R.et.al.   11959558
[9] “The VirB4 family of proposed traffic nucleoside triphosphatases: common motifs in plasmid RP4 TrbE are essential for conjugation and phage adsorption.”  Rabel C.et.al.   12533481

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FASTA formatted sequence
1:	MAFELFTPLF NKIDQTTATY VTDISSRAIA AITPVVSVGL TLGFITYGWL IIRGAVEMPV 
61:	AEFLNRCLRI GIIVSIALAG GLYQGEIANA ITTVPDELAS ALLGNPTEGA SAAALVDQSA 
121:	QQGFDRASEA FEEAGFFSSD GLLYGLFGII IPAGYGPAGA IGGAFLLLAK IALALLAGLG 
181:	PLFILALIWQ PTHRFFDQWA QQVLNYGLLI VLFAAVFGLL MQIFGSYMAD LRFDGAQNVA 
241:	YAIGGSVILS IVSIVLLMQL PSIASGLAGG IGLGYMWELR SMRSGAGAAM RGGRAMARGA 
301:	RAAPGAARGA AVGAANMAKT VATGGAGVAR AAAGYFRGRK AG