CsbD

• Description: general stress protein
  
  

Gene name	csbD
Synonyms	ywmG
Essential	no
Product	unknown
Function	survival of salt stress and at low temperatures
MW, pI	6 kDa, 9.689
Gene length, protein length	186 bp, 62 aa
Immediate neighbours	ureA, ywmF
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU36670

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

Categories containing this gene/protein

general stress proteins (controlled by SigB)

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family: UPF0337 (csbD) 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:

• UniProt: P70964

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon:
  • ywmF-csbD PubMed
  • csbD PubMed

• Sigma factor:
  • ywmF: unknown
  • csbD: SigB PubMed

• Regulation:
  • csbD: induced by stress (SigB) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Dirk Höper, Uwe Völker, Michael Hecker
Comprehensive characterization of the contribution of individual SigB-dependent general stress genes to stress resistance of Bacillus subtilis.
J Bacteriol: 2005, 187(8);2810-26
[PubMed:15805528] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Samina Akbar, Soon Youl Lee, Sharon A Boylan, Chester W Price
Two genes from Bacillus subtilis under the sole control of the general stress transcription factor sigmaB.
Microbiology (Reading): 1999, 145 ( Pt 5);1069-1078
[PubMed:10376822] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)