GerM

• Description: germination (cortex hydrolysis) and sporulation
  
  

Gene name	gerM
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	unknown
Function	germination (cortex hydrolysis) and sporulation
MW, pI	39 kDa, 4.683
Gene length, protein length	1098 bp, 366 aa
Immediate neighbours	rph, racE
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU28380

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:

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: P39072

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: gerM PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigE PubMed

• Regulation:
  • expressed early during sporulation in the mother cell (SigE, SpoIIID) PubMed
  • repressed by casamino acids PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • SpoIIID: transcription repression PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody: