YfhK

• Description: general stress protein, similar to cell division inhibitor
  
  

Gene name	yfhK
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	unknown
Function	survival of ethonol stress and at low and high temperatures
MW, pI	18 kDa, 9.96
Gene length, protein length	516 bp, 172 aa
Immediate neighbours	yfhJ, yfhL
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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Categories containing this gene/protein

general stress proteins (controlled by SigB)

This gene is a member of the following regulons

SigB regulon, SigW regulon

The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU08570

Expression

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:

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: O31579

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: yfhK-yfhL-yfhM PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigB PubMed, SigW PubMed

• Regulation:
  • repressed by casamino acids PubMed
  • induced by stress (SigB) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Dirk Höper, Uwe Völker, Michael Hecker
Comprehensive characterization of the contribution of individual SigB-dependent general stress genes to stress resistance of Bacillus subtilis.
J Bacteriol: 2005, 187(8);2810-26
[PubMed:15805528] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Ulrike Mäder, Georg Homuth, Christian Scharf, Knut Büttner, Rüdiger Bode, Michael Hecker
Transcriptome and proteome analysis of Bacillus subtilis gene expression modulated by amino acid availability.
J Bacteriol: 2002, 184(15);4288-95
[PubMed:12107147] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

H Antelmann, C Scharf, M Hecker
Phosphate starvation-inducible proteins of Bacillus subtilis: proteomics and transcriptional analysis.
J Bacteriol: 2000, 182(16);4478-90
[PubMed:10913081] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

X Huang, A Gaballa, M Cao, J D Helmann
Identification of target promoters for the Bacillus subtilis extracytoplasmic function sigma factor, sigma W.
Mol Microbiol: 1999, 31(1);361-71
[PubMed:9987136] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)