YbaK

• Description: sporulation protein
  
  

Gene name	ybaK
Synonyms	ybxH
Essential	no
Product	sporulation protein
Function	unknown
MW, pI	17 kDa, 5
Gene length, protein length	441 bp, 147 aa
Immediate neighbours	ybaJ, cwlD
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU01520

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:

• UniProt: P50862

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: ybaK-cwlD PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigG PubMed

• Regulation: expressed during sporulation (SigG) PubMed
  • repressed when no DNA damage is present (LexA) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • LexA: transcription repression PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Nora Au, Elke Kuester-Schoeck, Veena Mandava, Laura E Bothwell, Susan P Canny, Karen Chachu, Sierra A Colavito, Shakierah N Fuller, Eli S Groban, Laura A Hensley, Theresa C O'Brien, Amish Shah, Jessica T Tierney, Louise L Tomm, Thomas M O'Gara, Alexi I Goranov, Alan D Grossman, Charles M Lovett
Genetic composition of the Bacillus subtilis SOS system.
J Bacteriol: 2005, 187(22);7655-66
[PubMed:16267290] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

J Sekiguchi, K Akeo, H Yamamoto, F K Khasanov, J C Alonso, A Kuroda
Nucleotide sequence and regulation of a new putative cell wall hydrolase gene, cwlD, which affects germination in Bacillus subtilis.
J Bacteriol: 1995, 177(19);5582-9
[PubMed:7559346] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)