YxeE

• Description: spore coat protein
  
  

Gene name	yxeE
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	spore coat protein
Function	unknown
MW, pI	14 kDa, 8.484
Gene length, protein length	363 bp, 121 aa
Immediate neighbours	yxeF, yxeD
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
Genetic context This image was kindly provided by SubtiList

Categories containing this gene/protein

sporulation proteins

This gene is a member of the following regulons

GerE regulon, SigK regulon

The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU39580

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family:

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:

• Localization: inner spore coat PubMed, polar (Septum) PubMed

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: P54944

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: yxeE PubMed

• Expression browser: yxeE PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigK PubMed

• Regulation:
  • expressed late during sporulation in the mother cell (SigK, GerE) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • GerE: transcription activation PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Daisuke Imamura, Ritsuko Kuwana, Hiromu Takamatsu, Kazuhito Watabe
Localization of proteins to different layers and regions of Bacillus subtilis spore coats.
J Bacteriol: 2010, 192(2);518-24
[PubMed:19933362] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Ritsuko Kuwana, Hiromu Takamatsu, Kazuhito Watabe
Expression, localization and modification of YxeE spore coat protein in Bacillus subtilis.
J Biochem: 2007, 142(6);681-9
[PubMed:17905812] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Jean-Christophe Meile, Ling Juan Wu, S Dusko Ehrlich, Jeff Errington, Philippe Noirot
Systematic localisation of proteins fused to the green fluorescent protein in Bacillus subtilis: identification of new proteins at the DNA replication factory.
Proteomics: 2006, 6(7);2135-46
[PubMed:16479537] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)