CgeB

• Description: maturation of the outermost layer of the spore
  
  

Gene name	cgeB
Synonyms	cgeAB
Essential	no
Product	unknown
Function	maturation of the outermost layer of the spore
MW, pI	36 kDa, 6.572
Gene length, protein length	951 bp, 317 aa
Immediate neighbours	cgeA, phy
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU19790

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

Categories containing this gene/protein

sporulation proteins

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family: msrB Met sulfoxide reductase 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: P42090

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: cgeA-cgeB PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigK PubMed

• Regulation:
  • expressed late during sporulation in the mother cell (SigK, GerE) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • GerE: transcription activation PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Leif Steil, Mónica Serrano, Adriano O Henriques, Uwe Völker
Genome-wide analysis of temporally regulated and compartment-specific gene expression in sporulating cells of Bacillus subtilis.
Microbiology (Reading): 2005, 151(Pt 2);399-420
[PubMed:15699190] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

S Roels, R Losick
Adjacent and divergently oriented operons under the control of the sporulation regulatory protein GerE in Bacillus subtilis.
J Bacteriol: 1995, 177(21);6263-75
[PubMed:7592393] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)