Dps

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  • Description: general stress protein

Gene name dps
Synonyms ytkB
Essential no
Product unknown
Function resistance against ethanol stress and survival at low temperatures
MW, pI 16 kDa, 4.444
Gene length, protein length 435 bp, 145 aa
Immediate neighbours ytkC, ytkA
Get the DNA and protein sequences
(Barbe et al., 2009)
Genetic context
Dps context.gif
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The gene

Basic information

  • Locus tag: BSU30650

Phenotypes of a mutant

Database entries

  • DBTBS entry: [1]
  • SubtiList entry: [2]

Additional information

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

  • Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:
  • Protein family: dps family (according to Swiss-Prot)
  • Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

  • Kinetic information:
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Database entries

  • Structure:
  • KEGG entry: [3]
  • E.C. number:

Additional information

Expression and regulation

  • Operon:
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Biological materials

  • Mutant:
  • Expression vector:
  • lacZ fusion:
  • GFP fusion:
  • two-hybrid system:
  • Antibody:

Labs working on this gene/protein

Your additional remarks

References

Dirk Höper, Uwe Völker, Michael Hecker
Comprehensive characterization of the contribution of individual SigB-dependent general stress genes to stress resistance of Bacillus subtilis.
J Bacteriol: 2005, 187(8);2810-26
[PubMed:15805528] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

H Antelmann, S Engelmann, R Schmid, A Sorokin, A Lapidus, M Hecker
Expression of a stress- and starvation-induced dps/pexB-homologous gene is controlled by the alternative sigma factor sigmaB in Bacillus subtilis.
J Bacteriol: 1997, 179(23);7251-6
[PubMed:9393687] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)