CspC

• Description: cold shock protein
  
  

Gene name	cspC
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	cold shock protein
Function	RNA chaperone
MW, pI	7 kDa, 4.518
Gene length, protein length	198 bp, 66 aa
Immediate neighbours	ydeA, ydeB
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
Genetic context This image was kindly provided by SubtiList

Categories containing this gene/protein

RNA chaperones, cold stress proteins

The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU05120

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: no entry

• SubtiList entry: [1]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family:

• Paralogous protein(s): CspB, CspD

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:

• Localization:
  • cytoplasm (according to Swiss-Prot)

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: P39158

• KEGG entry: [2]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon:

• Expression browser: cspC PubMed

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation:
  • induced by cold shock (9-fold) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system: B. pertussis adenylate cyclase-based bacterial two hybrid system (BACTH), available in Stülke lab

• Antibody:

References

Michael H Weber, Mohamed A Marahiel
Bacterial cold shock responses.
Sci Prog: 2003, 86(Pt 1-2);9-75
[PubMed:12838604] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Tanja Kaan, Georg Homuth, Ulrike Mäder, Julia Bandow, Thomas Schweder
Genome-wide transcriptional profiling of the Bacillus subtilis cold-shock response.
Microbiology (Reading): 2002, 148(Pt 11);3441-3455
[PubMed:12427936] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Carsten L Beckering, Leif Steil, Michael H W Weber, Uwe Völker, Mohamed A Marahiel
Genomewide transcriptional analysis of the cold shock response in Bacillus subtilis.
J Bacteriol: 2002, 184(22);6395-402
[PubMed:12399512] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Michael H W Weber, Mohamed A Marahiel
Coping with the cold: the cold shock response in the Gram-positive soil bacterium Bacillus subtilis.
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci: 2002, 357(1423);895-907
[PubMed:12171653] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Michael H W Weber, Ingo Fricke, Niclas Doll, Mohamed A Marahiel
CSDBase: an interactive database for cold shock domain-containing proteins and the bacterial cold shock response.
Nucleic Acids Res: 2002, 30(1);375-8
[PubMed:11752341] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

M H Weber, C L Beckering, M A Marahiel
Complementation of cold shock proteins by translation initiation factor IF1 in vivo.
J Bacteriol: 2001, 183(24);7381-6
[PubMed:11717297] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

M H Weber, A V Volkov, I Fricke, M A Marahiel, P L Graumann
Localization of cold shock proteins to cytosolic spaces surrounding nucleoids in Bacillus subtilis depends on active transcription.
J Bacteriol: 2001, 183(21);6435-43
[PubMed:11591689] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

T Schindler, P L Graumann, D Perl, S Ma, F X Schmid, M A Marahiel
The family of cold shock proteins of Bacillus subtilis. Stability and dynamics in vitro and in vivo.
J Biol Chem: 1999, 274(6);3407-13
[PubMed:9920884] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

P L Graumann, M A Marahiel
Cold shock proteins CspB and CspC are major stationary-phase-induced proteins in Bacillus subtilis.
Arch Microbiol: 1999, 171(2);135-8
[PubMed:9914312] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

P Graumann, T M Wendrich, M H Weber, K Schröder, M A Marahiel
A family of cold shock proteins in Bacillus subtilis is essential for cellular growth and for efficient protein synthesis at optimal and low temperatures.
Mol Microbiol: 1997, 25(4);741-56
[PubMed:9379903] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)