SspE

• Description: small acid-soluble spore protein (major gamma-type SASP)
  
  

Gene name	sspE
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	small acid-soluble spore protein (major gamma-type SASP)
Function	protection of spore DNA
Metabolic function and regulation of this protein in SubtiPathways: Lipid synthesis
MW, pI	9 kDa, 8.945
Gene length, protein length	252 bp, 84 aa
Immediate neighbours	fabL, ygaB
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU08660

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

Categories containing this gene/protein

sporulation proteins

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family: gamma-type SASP 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: P07784

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon
  • yfhQ-fabL-sspE PubMed
  • fabL-sspE PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigA PubMed, SigG PubMed

• Regulation: repressed by casamino acids PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody: