GerR

• Description: probably DNA-binding protein, regulates transcription of some spore coat genes
  
  

Gene name	gerR
Synonyms	ylbO
Essential	no
Product	unknown
Function	spore coat formation and resistance of spores to lysozyme
MW, pI	22 kDa, 7.109
Gene length, protein length	579 bp, 193 aa
Immediate neighbours	rpmF, ylbP
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag:

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

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Extended information on the protein

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Database entries

• Structure:

• Swiss prot entry: O34549

• KEGG entry: BSU15090

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon:

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation: repressed by glucose (3.2-fold) PubMed, repressed by casamino acids PubMed

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Biological materials

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• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

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References

1. Blencke et al. (2003) Transcriptional profiling of gene expression in response to glucose in Bacillus subtilis: regulation of the central metabolic pathways. Metab Eng. 5: 133-149 PubMed
2. Mäder et al. (2002) Transcriptome and Proteome Analysis of Bacillus subtilis Gene Expression Modulated by Amino Acid Availability. J. Bacteriol 184: 1844288-4295 PubMed
3. Author1, Author2 & Author3 (year) Title Journal volume: page-page. PubMed