SpoVD

• Description: mother-cell specific penicillin-binding protein (spore cortex)
  
  

Gene name	spoVD
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	penicillin-binding protein (spore cortex)
Function	spore morphogenesis
MW, pI	71 kDa, 8.85
Gene length, protein length	1935 bp, 645 aa
Immediate neighbours	pbpB, murE
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU15170

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family:

• Paralogous protein(s): PbpB

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity: intramolecular disulfide bonds between two Cys residues are broken by StoA, this is rquired for activity of SpoVD

• Interactions: SpoVD-StoA

• Localization: intermembrane space that separates forespores from mother cells

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: Q03524

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: spoVD PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigE PubMed

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

• Regulatory mechanism:

• • SpoIIID: transcription repression PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody: