YkrK

• Description: transcription repressor of htpX expression
  
  

Gene name	ykrK
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	transcription repressor of htpX
Function	regulation of membrane protein quality control
Gene expression levels in SubtiExpress: ykrK
MW, pI	26 kDa, 6.153
Gene length, protein length	699 bp, 233 aa
Immediate neighbours	sspD, htpX
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
Genetic context This image was kindly provided by SubtiList
Expression at a glance   PubMed

Categories containing this gene/protein

Transcription factors and their control

The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU13480

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: no entry

• SubtiList entry: [1]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

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• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

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Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: O31656

• KEGG entry: [2]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon:

• Expression browser: ykrK PubMed

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation:

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • might be subject to autoregulation PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

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• lacZ fusion:

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References

Ta-Hui Lin, Shih-Chien Huang, Gwo-Chyuan Shaw
Reexamining transcriptional regulation of the Bacillus subtilis htpX gene and the ykrK gene, encoding a novel type of transcriptional regulator, and redefining the YkrK operator.
J Bacteriol: 2012, 194(24);6758-65
[PubMed:23042994] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Bogumila C Marciniak, Hein Trip, Fabrizia Fusetti, Oscar P Kuipers
Regulation of ykrL (htpX) by Rok and YkrK, a novel type of regulator in Bacillus subtilis.
J Bacteriol: 2012, 194(11);2837-45
[PubMed:22447908] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)