CsbX

• Description: general stress protein
  
  

Gene name	csbX
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	unknown
Function	unknown
MW, pI	47 kDa, 8.818
Gene length, protein length	1305 bp, 435 aa
Immediate neighbours	bofC, yrbE
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU27760

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

Categories containing this gene/protein

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

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family:

• Paralogous protein(s): YoaB

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:

• Localization: forespore intermembrane space (according to Swiss-Prot)

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: O05390

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: csbX-bofC PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigF PubMed, SigG PubMed, SigB PubMed

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

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

A Petersohn, M Brigulla, S Haas, J D Hoheisel, U Völker, M Hecker
Global analysis of the general stress response of Bacillus subtilis.
J Bacteriol: 2001, 183(19);5617-31
[PubMed:11544224] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

M Gomez, S M Cutting
Identification of a new sigmaB-controlled gene, csbX, in Bacillus subtilis.
Gene: 1997, 188(1);29-33
[PubMed:9099855] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)