YfkM

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  • Description: general stress protein, survival of salt and ethanol stresses

Gene name yfkM
Synonyms
Essential no
Product unknown
Function survival of salt and ethanol stresses
MW, pI 18 kDa, 4.722
Gene length, protein length 516 bp, 172 aa
Immediate neighbours yfkN, yfkL
Get the DNA and protein sequences
(Barbe et al., 2009)
Genetic context
YfkM context.gif
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The gene

Basic information

  • Locus tag: BSU07850

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: PfpI endopeptidase domain (according to Swiss-Prot)
  • Paralogous protein(s): YraA

Extended information on the protein

  • Kinetic information:
  • Domains:
  • Modification:
  • Cofactor(s):
  • Effectors of protein activity:
  • Interactions:
  • Localization:

Database entries

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

Additional information

Expression and regulation

  • Operon:
  • Regulation: induced by stress (SigB) PubMed
    • repressed unless the cells enter an iron starvation (Fur) PubMed
  • Regulatory mechanism:
  • Additional information:

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)

Noel Baichoo, Tao Wang, Rick Ye, John D Helmann
Global analysis of the Bacillus subtilis Fur regulon and the iron starvation stimulon.
Mol Microbiol: 2002, 45(6);1613-29
[PubMed:12354229] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Anja Petersohn, Haike Antelmann, Ulf Gerth, Michael Hecker
Identification and transcriptional analysis of new members of the sigmaB regulon in Bacillus subtilis.
Microbiology (Reading): 1999, 145 ( Pt 4);869-880
[PubMed:10220166] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

  1. Höper et al. (2005) Comprehensive Characterization of the Contribution of Individual SigB-Dependent General Stress Genes to Stress Resistance of Bacillus subtilis. J. Bact. 187: 2810-2826 PubMed
  2. Author1, Author2 & Author3 (year) Title Journal volume: page-page. PubMed