YabP

• Description: required for sporulation at a late stage
  
  

Gene name	yabP
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	unknown
Function	sporulation
Gene expression levels in SubtiExpress: yabP
MW, pI	11 kDa, 6.341
Gene length, protein length	300 bp, 100 aa
Immediate neighbours	yabO, yabQ
Sequences	Protein DNA Advanced_DNA
Genetic context This image was kindly provided by SubtiList
Expression at a glance   PubMed

Categories containing this gene/protein

sporulation proteins, membrane proteins

This gene is a member of the following regulons

SigE regulon

The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU00600

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:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:

• Localization: forespore outer membrane (according to Swiss-Prot)

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: P37558

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon:
  • yabM-yabN-yabO-yabP-yabQ-divIC-yabR PubMed
  • yabP-yabQ-divIC-yabR PubMed

• Expression browser: yabP PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigE PubMed
  • yabM: unknown
  • yabP: SigE PubMed

• Regulation: expressed during sporulation (SigE) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Christiaan van Ooij, Patrick Eichenberger, Richard Losick
Dynamic patterns of subcellular protein localization during spore coat morphogenesis in Bacillus subtilis.
J Bacteriol: 2004, 186(14);4441-8
[PubMed:15231775] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Kei Asai, Hiromu Takamatsu, Megumi Iwano, Takeko Kodama, Kazuhito Watabe, Naotake Ogasawara
The Bacillus subtilis yabQ gene is essential for formation of the spore cortex.
Microbiology (Reading): 2001, 147(Pt 4);919-927
[PubMed:11283287] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

P Fawcett, P Eichenberger, R Losick, P Youngman
The transcriptional profile of early to middle sporulation in Bacillus subtilis.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A: 2000, 97(14);8063-8
[PubMed:10869437] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)