YkfA

• Description: similar to immunity to bacteriotoxins
  
  

Gene name	ykfA
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	unknown
Function	unknown
MW, pI	25 kDa, 5.409
Gene length, protein length	702 bp, 234 aa
Immediate neighbours	dppE, ykfB
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
Genetic context This image was kindly provided by SubtiList

Categories containing this gene/protein

toxins, antitoxins and immunity against toxins

This gene is a member of the following regulons

CodY regulon

The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU12970

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: no entry

• SubtiList entry: [1]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family: peptidase S66 family (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:

• Localization:

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: O34851

• KEGG entry: [2]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon:

• Expression browser: ykfA PubMed

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation: repressed by CodY PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism: CodY: transcription repression PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Virginie Molle, Yoshiko Nakaura, Robert P Shivers, Hirotake Yamaguchi, Richard Losick, Yasutaro Fujita, Abraham L Sonenshein
Additional targets of the Bacillus subtilis global regulator CodY identified by chromatin immunoprecipitation and genome-wide transcript analysis.
J Bacteriol: 2003, 185(6);1911-22
[PubMed:12618455] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)