YfkT

• Description: general stress protein, part of the YfkQ-YfkR-YfkT germinant receptor of unknown specificity
  
  

Gene name	yfkT
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	part of the YfkQ-YfkR-YfkT germinant receptor
Function	germination
Gene expression levels in SubtiExpress: yfkT
MW, pI	40 kDa, 9.772
Gene length, protein length	1074 bp, 358 aa
Immediate neighbours	yflA, yfkS
Sequences	Protein DNA DNA_with_flanks
Genetic context This image was kindly provided by SubtiList
Expression at a glance   PubMed

Categories containing this gene/protein

general stress proteins (controlled by SigB), germination, membrane proteins

This gene is a member of the following regulons

SigB regulon

The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU07760

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: no entry

• SubtiList entry: [1]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family:
  • amino acid, polyamine, organocation (APC) superfamily of transporters, TC 2.A.3

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:

• Localization:
  • cell membrane (according to Swiss-Prot)

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: O34573

• KEGG entry: [2]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: yfkQ-yfkR-yfkS-yfkT PubMed

• Expression browser: yfkT PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigB PubMed, SigG PubMed

• Regulation:
  • induced by stress (SigB) PubMed
  • expressed during sporulation in the forespore PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Pierre Nicolas, Ulrike Mäder, Etienne Dervyn, Tatiana Rochat, Aurélie Leduc, Nathalie Pigeonneau, Elena Bidnenko, Elodie Marchadier, Mark Hoebeke, Stéphane Aymerich, Dörte Becher, Paola Bisicchia, Eric Botella, Olivier Delumeau, Geoff Doherty, Emma L Denham, Mark J Fogg, Vincent Fromion, Anne Goelzer, Annette Hansen, Elisabeth Härtig, Colin R Harwood, Georg Homuth, Hanne Jarmer, Matthieu Jules, Edda Klipp, Ludovic Le Chat, François Lecointe, Peter Lewis, Wolfram Liebermeister, Anika March, Ruben A T Mars, Priyanka Nannapaneni, David Noone, Susanne Pohl, Bernd Rinn, Frank Rügheimer, Praveen K Sappa, Franck Samson, Marc Schaffer, Benno Schwikowski, Leif Steil, Jörg Stülke, Thomas Wiegert, Kevin M Devine, Anthony J Wilkinson, Jan Maarten van Dijl, Michael Hecker, Uwe Völker, Philippe Bessières, Philippe Noirot
Condition-dependent transcriptome reveals high-level regulatory architecture in Bacillus subtilis.
Science: 2012, 335(6072);1103-6
[PubMed:22383849] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Dirk Höper, Uwe Völker, Michael Hecker
Comprehensive characterization of the contribution of individual SigB-dependent general stress genes to stress resistance of Bacillus subtilis.
J Bacteriol: 2005, 187(8);2810-26
[PubMed:15805528] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Leif Steil, Mónica Serrano, Adriano O Henriques, Uwe Völker
Genome-wide analysis of temporally regulated and compartment-specific gene expression in sporulating cells of Bacillus subtilis.
Microbiology (Reading): 2005, 151(Pt 2);399-420
[PubMed:15699190] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

M Paidhungat, P Setlow
Role of ger proteins in nutrient and nonnutrient triggering of spore germination in Bacillus subtilis.
J Bacteriol: 2000, 182(9);2513-9
[PubMed:10762253] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)