YaaH

• Description: general stress protein, survival of ethanol stress, spore coat protein
  
  

Gene name	yaaH
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	spore coat protein
Function	survival of ethanol stress
MW, pI	48 kDa, 5.618
Gene length, protein length	1281 bp, 427 aa
Immediate neighbours	dgk, yaaI
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU00160

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

Categories containing this gene/protein

sporulation proteins, general stress proteins (controlled by SigB)

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: inner spore coat PubMed

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: P37531

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Additional information

required for survival of ethanol stress PubMed

Expression and regulation

• Operon: yaaH PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigE PubMed, SigB PubMed

• Regulation: induced by stress (SigB) PubMed, expressed during sporulation PubMed

• 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

Daisuke Imamura, Ritsuko Kuwana, Hiromu Takamatsu, Kazuhito Watabe
Localization of proteins to different layers and regions of Bacillus subtilis spore coats.
J Bacteriol: 2010, 192(2);518-24
[PubMed:19933362] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Takashi Inaoka, Takenori Satomura, Yasutaro Fujita, Kozo Ochi
Novel gene regulation mediated by overproduction of secondary metabolite neotrehalosadiamine in Bacillus subtilis.
FEMS Microbiol Lett: 2009, 291(2);151-6
[PubMed:19087206] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Dirk Höper, Uwe Völker, Michael Hecker
Comprehensive characterization of the contribution of individual SigB-dependent general stress genes to stress resistance of Bacillus subtilis.
J Bacteriol: 2005, 187(8);2810-26
[PubMed:15805528] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

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)

A Aronson
Sporulation and delta-endotoxin synthesis by Bacillus thuringiensis.
Cell Mol Life Sci: 2002, 59(3);417-25
[PubMed:11964120] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

T Kodama, H Takamatsu, K Asai, K Kobayashi, N Ogasawara, K Watabe
The Bacillus subtilis yaaH gene is transcribed by SigE RNA polymerase during sporulation, and its product is involved in germination of spores.
J Bacteriol: 1999, 181(15);4584-91
[PubMed:10419957] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)