SpoIIP

• Description: required for dissolution of the septal cell wall
  
  

Gene name	spoIIP
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	sporulation protein
Function	dissolution of the septal cell wall
MW, pI	44 kDa, 6.852
Gene length, protein length	1203 bp, 401 aa
Immediate neighbours	yqxA, gpr
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU25530

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:

Database entries

• Structure:

• Swiss prot entry: P37968

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: gpr-spoIIP

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation:

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Arnaud Chastanet, Richard Losick
Engulfment during sporulation in Bacillus subtilis is governed by a multi-protein complex containing tandemly acting autolysins.
Mol Microbiol: 2007, 64(1);139-52
[PubMed:17376078] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Stephanie T Wang, Barbara Setlow, Erin M Conlon, Jessica L Lyon, Daisuke Imamura, Tsutomu Sato, Peter Setlow, Richard Losick, Patrick Eichenberger
The forespore line of gene expression in Bacillus subtilis.
J Mol Biol: 2006, 358(1);16-37
[PubMed:16497325] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Jonathan Dworkin, Richard Losick
Developmental commitment in a bacterium.
Cell: 2005, 121(3);401-9
[PubMed:15882622] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Thierry Doan, Kathleen A Marquis, David Z Rudner
Subcellular localization of a sporulation membrane protein is achieved through a network of interactions along and across the septum.
Mol Microbiol: 2005, 55(6);1767-81
[PubMed:15752199] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

P Eichenberger, P Fawcett, R Losick
A three-protein inhibitor of polar septation during sporulation in Bacillus subtilis.
Mol Microbiol: 2001, 42(5);1147-62
[PubMed:11886548] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)