FloA

• Description: flottilin-like protein (in addition to FloT), resistence protein (against sublancin), accessory role in resistance to cefuroxime
  
  

Gene name	floA
Synonyms	yqfA
Essential	no
Product	flottilin-like protein
Function	resistance against sublancin
Gene expression levels in SubtiExpress: floA
Interactions involving this protein in SubtInteract: FloA
MW, pI	35 kDa, 4.917
Gene length, protein length	993 bp, 331 aa
Immediate neighbours	yqfB, yqeZ
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
Genetic context This image was kindly provided by SubtiList
Expression at a glance   PubMed

Categories containing this gene/protein

membrane dynamics, cell envelope stress proteins (controlled by SigM, V, W, X, Y), resistance against toxins/ antibiotics, membrane proteins

This gene is a member of the following regulons

SigW regulon

The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU25380

Phenotypes of a mutant

• • a floT floA double mutant does not induce KinC-dependent biofilm formation upon addition of surfactin PubMed
  • a floT floA double mutant has a strong synthetic defect in motility, cell morphology, and transformation efficiency PubMed
  • a floT floA double mutant has a sporulation defect, due to the lack of FtsH PubMed

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family: UPF0365 family (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:
  • FloA-FtsH PubMed

• Localization:
  • membrane PubMed
  • co-localizes with FloT in discrete foci in the membrane PubMed
  • forms focal structure in the cytoplasma membrane PubMed

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: P54466

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: yqeZ-floA-yqfB PubMed

• Expression browser: floA PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigW PubMed

• Regulation:
  • expressed under stress conditions (SigW) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Additional publications: PubMed

Ana Yepes, Johannes Schneider, Benjamin Mielich, Gudrun Koch, Juan-Carlos García-Betancur, Kumaran S Ramamurthi, Hera Vlamakis, Daniel López
The biofilm formation defect of a Bacillus subtilis flotillin-defective mutant involves the protease FtsH.
Mol Microbiol: 2012, 86(2);457-71
[PubMed:22882210] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Felix Dempwolff, Heiko M Möller, Peter L Graumann
Synthetic motility and cell shape defects associated with deletions of flotillin/reggie paralogs in Bacillus subtilis and interplay of these proteins with NfeD proteins.
J Bacteriol: 2012, 194(17);4652-61
[PubMed:22753055] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Daniel López, Roberto Kolter
Functional microdomains in bacterial membranes.
Genes Dev: 2010, 24(17);1893-902
[PubMed:20713508] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Hannes Hahne, Susanne Wolff, Michael Hecker, Dörte Becher
From complementarity to comprehensiveness--targeting the membrane proteome of growing Bacillus subtilis by divergent approaches.
Proteomics: 2008, 8(19);4123-36
[PubMed:18763711] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Bronwyn G Butcher, John D Helmann
Identification of Bacillus subtilis sigma-dependent genes that provide intrinsic resistance to antimicrobial compounds produced by Bacilli.
Mol Microbiol: 2006, 60(3);765-82
[PubMed:16629676] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Min Cao, Phil A Kobel, Maud M Morshedi, Ming Fang Winston Wu, Chris Paddon, John D Helmann
Defining the Bacillus subtilis sigma(W) regulon: a comparative analysis of promoter consensus search, run-off transcription/macroarray analysis (ROMA), and transcriptional profiling approaches.
J Mol Biol: 2002, 316(3);443-57
[PubMed:11866510] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)