yhbE

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bactofilin, required for flagellar hook- and filament assembly

Locus: BSU_08950

Molecular weight: 24.57 kDa

Isoelectric point: 4.82

Protein length: 237 aa

Gene length: 714 bp

Function: assembly of the flagellar hook and filament

Product: bactofilin

Essential: no

Synonyms: yhbE, yzdA, ygaT

Genomic Context

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List of homologs in different organisms, belongs to COG1664 (Galperin et al., 2021)

Gene

Coordinates: 971,374 → 972,087

Phenotypes of a mutant

• complete loss of swimming motility PubMed

The protein

Structure

• P39132 (AlphaFold)

Paralogous protein(s)

• YhbF

Localization

• discrete assemblies at the cell membrane PubMed
• assemblies are highly mobile PubMed

Expression and Regulation

Operons

• Genes: yhbD-yhbE-yhbF

  Description: PubMed

Biological materials

Mutant

• MGNA-A732 (yhbE::erm), available at the NBRP B. subtilis, Japan
• BKE08950 (ΔyhbE::erm  trpC2) available at BGSC,  PubMed, upstream reverse: _UP1_TCCATTTATCACCAGCTTTT,  downstream forward: _UP4_ACAAAGTTGTAAGGAGGATC
• BKK08950 (ΔyhbE::kan  trpC2) available at BGSC,  PubMed, upstream reverse: _UP1_TCCATTTATCACCAGCTTTT,  downstream forward: _UP4_ACAAAGTTGTAAGGAGGATC

References

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