YitC

• Description: mother cell-specific sporulation protein
  
  

Gene name	yitC
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	unknown
Function	unknown
MW, pI	24 kDa, 5.216
Gene length, protein length	684 bp, 228 aa
Immediate neighbours	yitB, yitD
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU10940

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:

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:

• Localization:

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: O06738

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Additional information

The gene is annotated in KEGG as ortholog of 2-phosphosulfolactate phosphatase EC 3.1.3.71. In Swiss-Prot the protein is marked as “probable 2-phosphosulfolactate phosphatase”. No EC annotation is available in MeMetaCyc.No literature/experimental evidence supporting the annotation is available. PubMed

Expression and regulation

• Operon: yitC-yitD (according to DBTBS)

• Sigma factor: SigE PubMed, SigK PubMed

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

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody: