ybdZ

unknown

Locus: BSU_31959

Isoelectric point: 4.48

Molecular weight: 7.90 kDa

Protein length: 69 aa

Gene length: 210 bp

Function: unknown

Product: unknown

Essential: -

Synonyms

Genomic Context

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Categories containing this gene/protein

• Groups of genes → Proteins of unknown function

Gene

Coordinates: 3,280,294 → 3,280,503

The protein

Structure

• 5U89 (from Geobacillus sp., 66% identity) PubMed

Expression and Regulation

Operons

• Genes: dhbA-dhbC-dhbE-dhbB-dhbF-ybdZ
  Description: PubMed

  Sigma factors

  • SigA: sigma factor, PubMed, in SigA regulon
  • SigI: sigma factor, PubMed, in SigI regulon

  Regulatory mechanism

  • Fur: repression, PubMed, in Fur regulon
  • AbrB: repression, PubMed, in AbrB regulon
  • Kre: repression, in Kre regulon

  Regulation

  • induced by iron starvation (second wave to allow iron scavenging from the environment) (Fur) PubMed
  • expression of the operon is strongly induced at the beginning of biofilm formation PubMed

  Additional information

  • the dhbA-dhbC-dhbE-dhbB-dhbF operon is strongly unregulated in a kre mutant PubMed

Biological materials

Mutant

• BKE31959 (ΔybdZ::erm trpC2) available at BGSC, PubMed, upstream reverse: _UP1_ATTTGCCATTCTATTTCTCC, downstream forward: _UP4_TAATCTTATCAAAAAGAGAC
• BKK31959 (ΔybdZ::kan trpC2) available at BGSC, PubMed, upstream reverse: _UP1_ATTTGCCATTCTATTTCTCC, downstream forward: _UP4_TAATCTTATCAAAAAGAGAC

References

Research papers

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