SpoVM

• Description: required for normal spore cortex and coat synthesis, inhibits the proteolytic activity of FtsH (adaptor protein)
  
  

Gene name	spoVM
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	spore coat morphogenetic protein
Function	spore cortex and coat synthesis
MW, pI	2 kDa, 11.026
Gene length, protein length	78 bp, 26 aa
Immediate neighbours	yloS, rpmB
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU15810

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

Categories containing this gene/protein

sporulation proteins, membrane proteins

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: SpoIVA-SpoVM-SpoVID PubMed

• Localization: spore membrane, recognizes membrane curvature PubMed

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: P37817

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: spoVM PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigE PubMed

• Regulation:
  • expressed in mother cell during sporulation (SigE, SpoIIID) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody: