YvcA

• Description: required for complex colony development
  
  

Gene name	yvcA
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	lipoprotein
Function	complex colony development
Gene expression levels in SubtiExpress: yvcA
MW, pI	27 kDa, 6.834
Gene length, protein length	723 bp, 241 aa
Immediate neighbours	yvcB, hisI
Sequences	Protein DNA DNA_with_flanks
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Expression at a glance   PubMed

Categories containing this gene/protein

biofilm formation, membrane proteins

This gene is a member of the following regulons

AbrB regulon, DegU regulon

The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU34850

Database entries

• BsubCyc: BSU34850

• DBTBS entry: no entry

• SubtiList entry: [1]

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: cell membrane (according to Swiss-Prot)

Database entries

• BsubCyc: BSU34850

• Structure:

• UniProt: O06965

• KEGG entry: [2]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: yvcA–yvcB–yvzA PubMed

• Expression browser: yvcA PubMed

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation:

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • DegU-P: transcription activation PubMed
  • AbrB: transcription repression PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Daniel T Verhamme, Ewan J Murray, Nicola R Stanley-Wall
DegU and Spo0A jointly control transcription of two loci required for complex colony development by Bacillus subtilis.
J Bacteriol: 2009, 191(1);100-8
[PubMed:18978066] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Daniël T Verhamme, Taryn B Kiley, Nicola R Stanley-Wall
DegU co-ordinates multicellular behaviour exhibited by Bacillus subtilis.
Mol Microbiol: 2007, 65(2);554-68
[PubMed:17590234] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)