CdaA

• Description: maybe involved in the synthesis of c-di-AMP in vegetative cells
  
  

Gene name	ybbP
Synonyms	ybbQ
Essential	no
Product	unknown
Function	unknown
Metabolic function and regulation of this protein in SubtiPathways: Murein recycling
MW, pI	30 kDa, 8.074
Gene length, protein length	819 bp, 273 aa
Immediate neighbours	ybbM, ybbR
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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Categories containing this gene/protein

membrane proteins, metabolism of signalling nucleotides

The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU01750

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: no entry

• SubtiList entry: [1]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family:

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains: contains a DAC domain potentially involved in the synthesis of c-di-AMP PubMed

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:

• Localization: cell membrane (according to Swiss-Prot)

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: Q45589

• KEGG entry: [2]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: ybbP-ybbR-glmM-glmS

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation:

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information: the ybbP-ybbR part of the mRNA is very stable (half-life > 15 min) PubMed

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Reviews

Ute Römling
Great times for small molecules: c-di-AMP, a second messenger candidate in Bacteria and Archaea.
Sci Signal: 2008, 1(33);pe39
[PubMed:18714086] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I e)

Original publications

Yaara Oppenheimer-Shaanan, Ezequiel Wexselblatt, Jehoshua Katzhendler, Eylon Yavin, Sigal Ben-Yehuda
c-di-AMP reports DNA integrity during sporulation in Bacillus subtilis.
EMBO Rep: 2011, 12(6);594-601
[PubMed:21566650] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

G Hambraeus, C von Wachenfeldt, L Hederstedt
Genome-wide survey of mRNA half-lives in Bacillus subtilis identifies extremely stable mRNAs.
Mol Genet Genomics: 2003, 269(5);706-14
[PubMed:12884008] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)