KapB

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Gene name kapB
Synonyms
Essential no
Product activator of KinB in the initiation of sporulation
Function control of sporulation initiation
Function and regulation of this protein in SubtiPathways:
Phosphorelay
MW, pI 14 kDa, 6.816
Gene length, protein length 384 bp, 128 aa
Immediate neighbours kinB, kapD
Get the DNA and protein sequences
(Barbe et al., 2009)
Genetic context
KapB context.gif
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Categories containing this gene/protein

phosphorelay, membrane proteins

This gene is a member of the following regulons

CodY regulon

The gene

Basic information

  • Locus tag: BSU31460

Phenotypes of a mutant

Database entries

  • DBTBS entry: [1]
  • SubtiList entry: [2]

Additional information

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:

Database entries

  • Structure:
  • KEGG entry: [3]
  • E.C. number:

Additional information

Expression and regulation

  • Regulation:
    • repressed during growth in the presence of branched chain amino acids (CodY) PubMed
  • Regulatory mechanism:
  • Additional information:

Biological materials

  • Mutant:
  • Expression vector:
  • lacZ fusion:
  • GFP fusion:
  • two-hybrid system:
  • Antibody:

Labs working on this gene/protein

Your additional remarks

References

Virginie Molle, Yoshiko Nakaura, Robert P Shivers, Hirotake Yamaguchi, Richard Losick, Yasutaro Fujita, Abraham L Sonenshein
Additional targets of the Bacillus subtilis global regulator CodY identified by chromatin immunoprecipitation and genome-wide transcript analysis.
J Bacteriol: 2003, 185(6);1911-22
[PubMed:12618455] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

V Dartois, T Djavakhishvili, J A Hoch
KapB is a lipoprotein required for KinB signal transduction and activation of the phosphorelay to sporulation in Bacillus subtilis.
Mol Microbiol: 1997, 26(5);1097-108
[PubMed:9426145] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

M A Strauch
Delineation of AbrB-binding sites on the Bacillus subtilis spo0H, kinB, ftsAZ, and pbpE promoters and use of a derived homology to identify a previously unsuspected binding site in the bsuB1 methylase promote.
J Bacteriol: 1995, 177(23);6999-7002
[PubMed:7592498] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

K A Trach, J A Hoch
Multisensory activation of the phosphorelay initiating sporulation in Bacillus subtilis: identification and sequence of the protein kinase of the alternate pathway.
Mol Microbiol: 1993, 8(1);69-79
[PubMed:8497199] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)