SpsI

• Description: spore coat polysaccharide synthesis
  
  

Gene name	spsI
Synonyms	ipa-71d
Essential	no
Product	unknown
Function	spore coat polysaccharide synthesis
MW, pI	27 kDa, 5.385
Gene length, protein length	738 bp, 246 aa
Immediate neighbours	spsJ, spsG
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU37840

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family: glucose-1-phosphate thymidylyltransferase family (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:

• Localization:

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: P39629

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon:

• Sigma factor: SigK PubMed

• Regulation:

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information: the mRNA is very stable (half-life > 15 min) PubMed

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

G Hambraeus, C von Wachenfeldt, L Hederstedt
Genome-wide survey of mRNA half-lives in Bacillus subtilis identifies extremely stable mRNAs.
Mol Genet Genomics: 2003, 269(5);706-14
[PubMed:12884008] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)