SpoVFA

• Description: dipicolinate synthase (subunit A)
  
  

Gene name	spoVFA
Synonyms	dpaA
Essential	no
Product	dipicolinate synthase (subunit A)
Function	dipicolic acid production
Metabolic function and regulation of this protein in SubtiPathways: Lys, Thr
MW, pI	31 kDa, 5.889
Gene length, protein length	891 bp, 297 aa
Immediate neighbours	ymxH, spoVFB
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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Categories containing this gene/protein

miscellaneous metabolic pathways, sporulation proteins

This gene is a member of the following regulons

SigK regulon

The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU16730

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:

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Database entries

• Structure: 2RIR

• UniProt: Q04809

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: spoVFA-spoVFB-asd-dapG-dapA PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigK PubMed

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

• Regulatory mechanism:

• 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)

R A Daniel, J Errington
Cloning, DNA sequence, functional analysis and transcriptional regulation of the genes encoding dipicolinic acid synthetase required for sporulation in Bacillus subtilis.
J Mol Biol: 1993, 232(2);468-83
[PubMed:8345520] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

N Y Chen, S Q Jiang, D A Klein, H Paulus
Organization and nucleotide sequence of the Bacillus subtilis diaminopimelate operon, a cluster of genes encoding the first three enzymes of diaminopimelate synthesis and dipicolinate synthase.
J Biol Chem: 1993, 268(13);9448-65
[PubMed:8098035] [WorldCat.org] (P p)