YqfD

• Description: SigE-dependent sporulation gene, similar to UDP-glucose 4-epimerase
  
  

Gene name	yqfD
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	unknown
Function	sporulation
MW, pI	45 kDa, 9.997
Gene length, protein length	1194 bp, 398 aa
Immediate neighbours	phoH, yqfC
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU25350

Phenotypes of a mutant

defect in sporulation PubMed

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family:

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:

• Localization: cytoplasm (according to Swiss-Prot), Polar (Septum) PubMed

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: P54469

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: yqfC-yqfD PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigE PubMed

• Regulation:
  • expressed early during sporulation in the mother cell (SigE, SpoIIID) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • SpoIIID: transcription repression PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody: