SleB

• Description: spore cortex-lytic enzyme
  
  

Gene name	sleB
Synonyms	ypeA
Essential	no
Product	spore cortex-lytic enzyme
Function	degration of the spore cortex, germination
MW, pI	33 kDa, 9.506
Gene length, protein length	915 bp, 305 aa
Immediate neighbours	ypeB, prsW
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU22930

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family: sleB 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: P50739

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: sleB-ypeB

• Sigma factor: SigG

• Regulation:

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Atsushi Masayama, Hideyuki Fukuoka, Shiro Kato, Tohru Yoshimura, Michie Moriyama, Ryuichi Moriyama
Subcellular localization of a germiantion-specific cortex-lytic enzyme, SleB, of Bacilli during sporulation.
Genes Genet Syst: 2006, 81(3);163-9
[PubMed:16905870] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Barbara Setlow, Swaroopa Atluri, Ryan Kitchel, Kasia Koziol-Dube, Peter Setlow
Role of dipicolinic acid in resistance and stability of spores of Bacillus subtilis with or without DNA-protective alpha/beta-type small acid-soluble proteins.
J Bacteriol: 2006, 188(11);3740-7
[PubMed:16707666] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)