YxjF

• Description: sporulation protein, similar to gluconate 5-dehydrogenase
  
  

Gene name	yxjF
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	unknown
Function	unknown
MW, pI	27 kDa, 7.89
Gene length, protein length	771 bp, 257 aa
Immediate neighbours	yxjG, scoB
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU38970

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

Categories containing this gene/protein

sporulation proteins, poorly characterized/ putative enzymes

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family: short-chain dehydrogenases/reductases (SDR) 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: P42317

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: yxjC-scoA-scoB-yxjF PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigE PubMed

• Regulation:
  • repressed by glucose (4-fold) (CcpA) PubMed
  • expressed early during sporulation in the mother cell (SigE) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • CcpA: transcription repression PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant: GP1112 (spc), available in Stülke lab

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody: