GerBC

• Description: nutrient receptor, germination response to the combination of glucose, fructose, and KCl
  
  

Gene name	gerBC
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	nutrient receptor
Function	germination
MW, pI	42 kDa, 9.06
Gene length, protein length	1122 bp, 374 aa
Immediate neighbours	gerBB, ywtG
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU35820

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family: gerABKC lipoprotein family (according to Swiss-Prot)

• 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: P39571

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: gerBA-gerBB-gerBC PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigG PubMed

• Regulation:
  • expressed late during sporulation in the forespore (SigG) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody: