SpoIIM

• Description: required for dissolution of the septal cell wall
  
  

Gene name	spoIIM
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	sporulation protein
Function	dissolution of the septal cell wall
MW, pI	24 kDa, 9.84
Gene length, protein length	642 bp, 214 aa
Immediate neighbours	fur, yqkK
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU23530

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

Categories containing this gene/protein

cell wall/ other, sporulation proteins

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: SpoIIP-SpoIIM PubMed

• Localization: cytoplasm (according to Swiss-Prot)

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: P37873

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: spoIIM PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigE PubMed

• Regulation:
  • expressed early during sporulation in the mother cell (SigE) PubMed
  • subject to negative control by YlbO PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Arnaud Chastanet, Richard Losick
Engulfment during sporulation in Bacillus subtilis is governed by a multi-protein complex containing tandemly acting autolysins.
Mol Microbiol: 2007, 64(1);139-52
[PubMed:17376078] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Thierry Doan, Kathleen A Marquis, David Z Rudner
Subcellular localization of a sporulation membrane protein is achieved through a network of interactions along and across the septum.
Mol Microbiol: 2005, 55(6);1767-81
[PubMed:15752199] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Patrick Eichenberger, Masaya Fujita, Shane T Jensen, Erin M Conlon, David Z Rudner, Stephanie T Wang, Caitlin Ferguson, Koki Haga, Tsutomu Sato, Jun S Liu, Richard Losick
The program of gene transcription for a single differentiating cell type during sporulation in Bacillus subtilis.
PLoS Biol: 2004, 2(10);e328
[PubMed:15383836] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

P Eichenberger, P Fawcett, R Losick
A three-protein inhibitor of polar septation during sporulation in Bacillus subtilis.
Mol Microbiol: 2001, 42(5);1147-62
[PubMed:11886548] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

K Smith, P Youngman
Evidence that the spoIIM gene of Bacillus subtilis is transcribed by RNA polymerase associated with sigma E.
J Bacteriol: 1993, 175(11);3618-27
[PubMed:8501065] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)