CgeE

• Description: maturation of the outermost layer of the spore
  
  

Gene name	cgeE
Synonyms	cgeBC
Essential	no
Product	unknown
Function	maturation of the outermost layer of the spore
MW, pI	29 kDa, 6.272
Gene length, protein length	777 bp, 259 aa
Immediate neighbours	yodT, cgeD
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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Categories containing this gene/protein

sporulation proteins

This gene is a member of the following regulons

GerE regulon, SigK regulon

The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU19750

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family: antibiotic N-acetyltransferase 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: P42093

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: cgeC-cgeD-cgeE PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigK PubMed

• Regulation:
  • expressed late during sporulation in the mother cell (SigK, GerE) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • GerE: transcription activation PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Leif Steil, Mónica Serrano, Adriano O Henriques, Uwe Völker
Genome-wide analysis of temporally regulated and compartment-specific gene expression in sporulating cells of Bacillus subtilis.
Microbiology (Reading): 2005, 151(Pt 2);399-420
[PubMed:15699190] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

S Roels, R Losick
Adjacent and divergently oriented operons under the control of the sporulation regulatory protein GerE in Bacillus subtilis.
J Bacteriol: 1995, 177(21);6263-75
[PubMed:7592393] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)