SspD

• Description: small acid-soluble spore protein (minor alpha/beta-type SASP)
  
  

Gene name	sspD
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	small acid-soluble spore protein (minor alpha/beta-type SASP)
Function	protection of spore DNA
MW, pI	6 kDa, 8.945
Gene length, protein length	192 bp, 64 aa
Immediate neighbours	rsgI, ykrK
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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Categories containing this gene/protein

sporulation proteins

This gene is a member of the following regulons

SigG regulon, SpoVT regulon

The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU13470

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family: alpha/beta-type SASP 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: P04833

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: sspD PubMed

• Expression browser: sspD PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigG PubMed

• Regulation:
  • expressed during sporulation in the forespore (SigG, SpoVT) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • SpoVT: transcription activation PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody: