YkgA

• Description: general stress protein, survival of salt and ethanol stresses
  
  

Gene name	ykgA
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	unknown
Function	survival of salt and ethanol stresses
MW, pI	29 kDa, 4.831
Gene length, protein length	789 bp, 263 aa
Immediate neighbours	ykgB, ykhA
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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Categories containing this gene/protein

general stress proteins (controlled by SigB)

This gene is a member of the following regulons

SigB regulon

The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU13020

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family: DDAH 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: O34497

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: ykgA-ykgB PubMed

• Expression browser: ykgA PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigB PubMed

• Regulation:
  • induced by stress (SigB) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Dirk Höper, Uwe Völker, Michael Hecker
Comprehensive characterization of the contribution of individual SigB-dependent general stress genes to stress resistance of Bacillus subtilis.
J Bacteriol: 2005, 187(8);2810-26
[PubMed:15805528] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

A Petersohn, J Bernhardt, U Gerth, D Höper, T Koburger, U Völker, M Hecker
Identification of sigma(B)-dependent genes in Bacillus subtilis using a promoter consensus-directed search and oligonucleotide hybridization.
J Bacteriol: 1999, 181(18);5718-24
[PubMed:10482513] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)