KbaA

• Description: activation of the KinB-dependent pathway to sporulation, control of the phosphorelay
  
  

Gene name	kbaA
Synonyms	ybxC, ybaM
Essential	no
Product	effector of KinB activity
Function	control of sporulation initiation
MW, pI	22 kDa, 9.806
Gene length, protein length	594 bp, 198 aa
Immediate neighbours	gerD, pdaB
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU01560

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:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:

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

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: P16449

• KEGG entry: [2]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon:

• Sigma factor: SigE PubMed

• Regulation:

• Regulatory mechanism:

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

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

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)

V Dartois, T Djavakhishvili, J A Hoch
Identification of a membrane protein involved in activation of the KinB pathway to sporulation in Bacillus subtilis.
J Bacteriol: 1996, 178(4);1178-86
[PubMed:8576055] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)