YfkM

• Description: general stress protein, survival of salt and ethanol stresses
  
  

Gene name	yfkM
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	unknown
Function	survival of salt and ethanol stresses
MW, pI	18 kDa, 4.722
Gene length, protein length	516 bp, 172 aa
Immediate neighbours	yfkN, yfkL
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
Genetic context This image was kindly provided by SubtiList

Categories containing this gene/protein

general stress proteins (controlled by SigB)

This gene is a member of the following regulons

Fur regulon, SigB regulon

The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU07850

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family: PfpI endopeptidase domain (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s): YraA

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:

• Localization:

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: P80876

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: yfkM PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigB PubMed

• Regulation:
  • induced by stress (SigB) PubMed
  • induced upon iron starvation (Fur) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • Fur: transcription repression PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody: