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Welcome to SubtiWiki! - Bacillus subtilis annotation the "wiki" way!

Contact: General Microbiology, University of Göttingen, send mail

Upcoming events:

• The next European BACELL meeting will take place in Bratislava from April 29 to April 30, 2014. The meeting will be organized by Imrich Barak, website, contact, program
• PTS 50 - The PTS celebrates 50 years of transport and regulation, organized by Josef Deutscher, Milton Saier and Jörg Stülke will take place from September 07 to 08 in Göttingen, Germany. website, Registration form, contact
• The 1st International Conference on Post-Translational Modifications in Bacteria, organized by Ivan Mijakovic, Christophe Grangeasse, Alan Kent Nielsen and Jörg Stülke will take place from September 09 to 10 in Göttingen, Germany. website, Registration form, contact
• Past conferences

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Now online: A new description of SubtiWiki and its acompanying modules in the 2014 Database issue of Nucleic Acids Research

Raphael H Michna, Fabian M Commichau, Dominik Tödter, Christopher P Zschiedrich, Jörg Stülke
SubtiWiki-a database for the model organism Bacillus subtilis that links pathway, interaction and expression information.
Nucleic Acids Res: 2014, 42(Database issue);D692-8
[PubMed:24178028] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Paper of the month: April 2014

• DNA repair and recombination involve the unwinding and digestion of the DNA duplex by the AddA-AddB complex from the broken end until they encounter a χ sequence, whereupon the proteins produce a 3′ single-stranded DNA tail onto which they initiate loading of the RecA protein. Now, two studies from the lab of Mark Dillingham address the structure of AddA-AddB complexed to a χ sequence, and the effect of χ binding for processivity and ATP hydrolysis by AddA-AddB.
• Relevant SubtiWiki pages: Mark Dillingham, DNA repair/ recombination, AddA, AddB

Neville S Gilhooly, Mark S Dillingham
Recombination hotspots attenuate the coupled ATPase and translocase activities of an AddAB-type helicase-nuclease.
Nucleic Acids Res: 2014, 42(9);5633-43
[PubMed:24682829] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Wojciech W Krajewski, Xin Fu, Martin Wilkinson, Nora B Cronin, Mark S Dillingham, Dale B Wigley
Structural basis for translocation by AddAB helicase-nuclease and its arrest at χ sites.
Nature: 2014, 508(7496);416-9
[PubMed:24670664] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

• Previous papers of the month

New procedure for account creation:

• Due to massive spam attacks, we had to change our policy for the creation of accounts. If you want to create an account, just send me a mail. We will create the account for you as quickly as possible, then you can change your password. This does not affect existing accounts, which remain active.
  
• Please remember that all members of the Bacillus community are invited to create accounts and to contribute to SubtiWiki!

News in SubtiWiki:

• April 2013: SubtiWiki uses a new, faster Mediawiki platform! The times for page access are significantly reduced. Enjoy!
• March 2013: updated Excel files that map all genes to categories and regulons as well as the general updated identity mapping of all genes were uploaded.
• October 2012: the essential genes have been categorized
• September 2012: 300 mutant strains available at the BGSC were added to the corresponding gene pages
• August 2012: SubtiExpress, the new compagnon of SubtiWiki devoted to gene expression is online! Try it out!
• April 2012: Links for expression data under 104 different conditions (based on Nicolas et al., 2012) have been added to the expression section of the individual gene pages
• April 2011: SubtInteract, a presentation of protein-protein interactions in B. subtilis, is online!
• December 2010: SubtiCellPublisher allows the conversion of CellDesigner diagrams to navigatable presentations in the style of SubtiPathways

Genes (examples)	Additional pages
spo0A	SubtiPathways
glnA	SubtInteract
rny	SubtiExpress
psdA	Regulons
pckA	methods
dnaA	metabolism
rnpA	categories
sigB	genome-wide analyses
ptkA	list of plasmids
mreC	labs working on Bacillus
ccpA	the people behind SubtiWiki
sr1	template

Publications describing SubtiWiki and SubtiPathways: