SboX

• Description: bacteriocin-like product
  
  

Gene name	sboX
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	bacteriocin-like product
Function	unknown
MW, pI	5 kDa, 9.857
Gene length, protein length	150 bp, 50 aa
Immediate neighbours	sboA, albA
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU37360

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:

Database entries

• Structure:

• Swiss prot entry: Q7WY57

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: sboA-sboX-albA-albB-albC-albD-albE-albF-albG

• Sigma factor: SigA

• Regulation:
  • repressed by Rok PubMed
  • expressed under anaerobic conditions (ResD) PubMed
  • repressed during logrithmic growth (AbrB) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • Rok: transcription repression PubMed
  • ResD: transcription activation PubMed
  • AbrB: transcription repression PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Mark A Strauch, Benjamin G Bobay, John Cavanagh, Fude Yao, Angelo Wilson, Yoann Le Breton
Abh and AbrB control of Bacillus subtilis antimicrobial gene expression.
J Bacteriol: 2007, 189(21);7720-32
[PubMed:17720793] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Mark Albano, Wiep Klaas Smits, Linh T Y Ho, Barbara Kraigher, Ines Mandic-Mulec, Oscar P Kuipers, David Dubnau
The Rok protein of Bacillus subtilis represses genes for cell surface and extracellular functions.
J Bacteriol: 2005, 187(6);2010-9
[PubMed:15743949] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

M M Nakano, G Zheng, P Zuber
Dual control of sbo-alb operon expression by the Spo0 and ResDE systems of signal transduction under anaerobic conditions in Bacillus subtilis.
J Bacteriol: 2000, 182(11);3274-7
[PubMed:10809710] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

G Zheng, L Z Yan, J C Vederas, P Zuber
Genes of the sbo-alb locus of Bacillus subtilis are required for production of the antilisterial bacteriocin subtilosin.
J Bacteriol: 1999, 181(23);7346-55
[PubMed:10572140] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)