YitC

• Description: mother cell-specific sporulation protein
  
  

Gene name	yitC
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	unknown
Function	unknown
Gene expression levels in SubtiExpress: yitC
MW, pI	24 kDa, 5.216
Gene length, protein length	684 bp, 228 aa
Immediate neighbours	yitB, yitD
Sequences	Protein DNA DNA_with_flanks
Genetic context This image was kindly provided by SubtiList
Expression at a glance   PubMed

Categories containing this gene/protein

sporulation proteins

This gene is a member of the following regulons

SigE regulon, SigK regulon

The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU10940

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):

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• Interactions:

• Localization:

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: O06738

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Additional information

The gene is annotated in KEGG as ortholog of 2-phosphosulfolactate phosphatase EC 3.1.3.71. In Swiss-Prot the protein is marked as “probable 2-phosphosulfolactate phosphatase”. No EC annotation is available in MeMetaCyc.No literature/experimental evidence supporting the annotation is available. PubMed

Expression and regulation

• Operon: yitC-yitD (according to DBTBS)

• Expression browser: yitC PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigE PubMed, SigK PubMed

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

Patrick Eichenberger, Masaya Fujita, Shane T Jensen, Erin M Conlon, David Z Rudner, Stephanie T Wang, Caitlin Ferguson, Koki Haga, Tsutomu Sato, Jun S Liu, Richard Losick
The program of gene transcription for a single differentiating cell type during sporulation in Bacillus subtilis.
PLoS Biol: 2004, 2(10);e328
[PubMed:15383836] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)