YhcN

• Description: forespore-specific gene
  
  

Gene name	yhcN
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	unknown
Function	unknown
Gene expression levels in SubtiExpress: yhcN
MW, pI	20 kDa, 5.361
Gene length, protein length	567 bp, 189 aa
Immediate neighbours	yhcM, yhcO
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
Genetic context This image was kindly provided by SubtiList
Expression at a glance   PubMed

Categories containing this gene/protein

sporulation proteins, membrane proteins

This gene is a member of the following regulons

SigF regulon, SigG regulon

The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU09150

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family:

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:

• Localization:
  • forespore inner membrane (according to Swiss-Prot)

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: P54598

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: yhcN PubMed

• Expression browser: yhcN PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigF PubMed, SigG PubMed

• Regulation:
  • expressed during sporulation (SigF, SigG) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:
  • 1A924 ( yhcN::erm), PubMed, available at BGSC

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Stephanie T Wang, Barbara Setlow, Erin M Conlon, Jessica L Lyon, Daisuke Imamura, Tsutomu Sato, Peter Setlow, Richard Losick, Patrick Eichenberger
The forespore line of gene expression in Bacillus subtilis.
J Mol Biol: 2006, 358(1);16-37
[PubMed:16497325] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

I Bagyan, M Noback, S Bron, M Paidhungat, P Setlow
Characterization of yhcN, a new forespore-specific gene of Bacillus subtilis.
Gene: 1998, 212(2);179-88
[PubMed:9611260] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)