Dps

• Description: general stress protein
  
  

Gene name	dps
Synonyms	ytkB
Essential	no
Product	unknown
Function	resistance against ethanol stress and survival at low temperatures
MW, pI	16 kDa, 4.444
Gene length, protein length	435 bp, 145 aa
Immediate neighbours	ytkC, ytkA
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU30650

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family: dps 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:

Database entries

• Structure:

• Swiss prot entry: P80879

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon:

• Sigma factor: SigB PubMed

• Regulation: induced by stress (SigB) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

1. Höper et al. (2005) Comprehensive Characterization of the Contribution of Individual SigB-Dependent General Stress Genes to Stress Resistance of Bacillus subtilis. J. Bact. 187: 2810-2826 PubMed
2. Author1, Author2 & Author3 (year) Title Journal volume: page-page. PubMed