GerD

• Description: required for fast repsonse to the presence of germinants
  
  

Gene name	gerD
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	lipoprotein
Function	germination
MW, pI	20 kDa, 4.862
Gene length, protein length	555 bp, 185 aa
Immediate neighbours	salA, kbaA
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU01550

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 membrane, spore coat, cortex, germ cell wall, some GerD is also present in the soluble fraction PubMed

Database entries

• Structure:

• Swiss prot entry: P16450

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon:

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation:

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody: available in Anne Moir lab

Labs working on this gene/protein

Anne Moir, University of Sheffield, UK

References

Wiyada Mongkolthanaruk, Carl Robinson, Anne Moir
Localization of the GerD spore germination protein in the Bacillus subtilis spore.
Microbiology (Reading): 2009, 155(Pt 4);1146-1151
[PubMed:19332816] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Patricia L Pelczar, Peter Setlow
Localization of the germination protein GerD to the inner membrane in Bacillus subtilis spores.
J Bacteriol: 2008, 190(16);5635-41
[PubMed:18556788] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Patricia L Pelczar, Takao Igarashi, Barbara Setlow, Peter Setlow
Role of GerD in germination of Bacillus subtilis spores.
J Bacteriol: 2007, 189(3);1090-8
[PubMed:17122337] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

E H Kemp, R L Sammons, A Moir, D Sun, P Setlow
Analysis of transcriptional control of the gerD spore germination gene of Bacillus subtilis 168.
J Bacteriol: 1991, 173(15);4646-52
[PubMed:1906867] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)