StoA

• Description: thiol-disulfide oxidoreductase, with thioredoxin-like domain, required for the synthesis of the endospore peptidoglycan cortex
  
  

Gene name	stoA
Synonyms	spoIVH, ykvV
Essential	no
Product	thiol-disulfide oxidoreductase
Function	spore cortex formation
MW, pI	18 kDa, 5.297
Gene length, protein length	495 bp, 165 aa
Immediate neighbours	ykvU, zosA
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU13840

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family: thioredoxin domain (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:

• Localization: spore wall (according to Swiss-Prot)

Database entries

• Structure:

• Swiss prot entry: O31687

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon:

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation:

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Allister Crow, Yiming Liu, Mirja Carlsson Möller, Nick E Le Brun, Lars Hederstedt
Structure and functional properties of Bacillus subtilis endospore biogenesis factor StoA.
J Biol Chem: 2009, 284(15);10056-66
[PubMed:19144642] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Lyethur S Erlendsson, Mirja Möller, Lars Hederstedt
Bacillus subtilis StoA Is a thiol-disulfide oxidoreductase important for spore cortex synthesis.
J Bacteriol: 2004, 186(18);6230-8
[PubMed:15342593] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Daisuke Imamura, Kazuo Kobayashi, Junichi Sekiguchi, Naotake Ogasawara, Michio Takeuchi, Tsutomu Sato
spoIVH (ykvV), a requisite cortex formation gene, is expressed in both sporulating compartments of Bacillus subtilis.
J Bacteriol: 2004, 186(16);5450-9
[PubMed:15292147] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Patrick Eichenberger, Shane T Jensen, Erin M Conlon, Christiaan van Ooij, Jessica Silvaggi, José Eduardo González-Pastor, Masaya Fujita, Sigal Ben-Yehuda, Patrick Stragier, Jun S Liu, Richard Losick
The sigmaE regulon and the identification of additional sporulation genes in Bacillus subtilis.
J Mol Biol: 2003, 327(5);945-72
[PubMed:12662922] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)