SpoVIF

• Description: required for spore coat assembly and resistance
  
  

Gene name	spoVIF
Synonyms	yjcC
Essential	no
Product	unknown
Function	required for spore coat assembly and resistance
MW, pI	11 kDa, 10.201
Gene length, protein length	300 bp, 100 aa
Immediate neighbours	yjcA, yjcD
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU11810

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

Categories containing this gene/protein

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:

• Localization: cytoplasm (according to Swiss-Prot)

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: O31625

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: spoVIF PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigK PubMed

• Regulation:
  • expressed late during sporulation in the mother cell (SigK, GerR) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • GerR: transcription activation PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Giuseppina Cangiano, Antonio Mazzone, Loredana Baccigalupi, Rachele Isticato, Patrick Eichenberger, Maurilio De Felice, Ezio Ricca
Direct and indirect control of late sporulation genes by GerR of Bacillus subtilis.
J Bacteriol: 2010, 192(13);3406-13
[PubMed:20435725] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Ritsuko Kuwana, Satoko Yamamura, Hiromi Ikejiri, Kazuo Kobayashi, Naotake Ogasawara, Kei Asai, Yoshito Sadaie, Hiromu Takamatsu, Kazuhito Watabe
Bacillus subtilis spoVIF (yjcC) gene, involved in coat assembly and spore resistance.
Microbiology (Reading): 2003, 149(Pt 10);3011-3021
[PubMed:14523132] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)