DivIB

• Description: cell-division initiation protein (septum formation)
  
  

Gene name	divIB
Synonyms	dds, tms-12
Essential	yes PubMed
Product	cell-division protein
Function	septum formation
MW, pI	30 kDa, 9.244
Gene length, protein length	789 bp, 263 aa
Immediate neighbours	murB, ylxW
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag:

Phenotypes of a mutant

essential PubMed

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family: ftsQ family (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:

• Localization: cell membrane PubMed

Database entries

• Structure: 2ALJ (major extracytoplasmic domain, Geobacillus stearothermophilus)

• Swiss prot entry: P16655

• KEGG entry: BSU15240

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: murE-mraY-murD-spoVE-murG-murB-divIB-ylxW-ylxX-sbp

• Sigma factor: SigE

• Regulation:

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Pamela Gamba, Jan-Willem Veening, Nigel J Saunders, Leendert W Hamoen, Richard A Daniel
Two-step assembly dynamics of the Bacillus subtilis divisome.
J Bacteriol: 2009, 191(13);4186-94
[PubMed:19429628] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

1. Author1, Author2 & Author3 (year) Title Journal volume: page-page. PubMed