YmcA

• Description: antagonist of biofilm repression by SinR
  
  

Gene name	ymcA
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	antagonist of biofilm repression by SinR
Function	control of biofilm formation
Gene expression levels in SubtiExpress: ymcA
MW, pI	16 kDa, 5.086
Gene length, protein length	429 bp, 143 aa
Immediate neighbours	ymcB, cotE
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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Expression at a glance   PubMed

Categories containing this gene/protein

transcription factors and their control, biofilm formation

The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU17020

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: no entry

• SubtiList entry: [1]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

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Extended information on the protein

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Database entries

• Structure: 2PIH

• UniProt: O31779

• KEGG entry: [2]

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Expression and regulation

• Operon:

• Expression browser: ymcA PubMed

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Biological materials

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• lacZ fusion:

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References

Daniel B Kearns, Frances Chu, Steven S Branda, Roberto Kolter, Richard Losick
A master regulator for biofilm formation by Bacillus subtilis.
Mol Microbiol: 2005, 55(3);739-49
[PubMed:15661000] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Steven S Branda, José Eduardo González-Pastor, Etienne Dervyn, S Dusko Ehrlich, Richard Losick, Roberto Kolter
Genes involved in formation of structured multicellular communities by Bacillus subtilis.
J Bacteriol: 2004, 186(12);3970-9
[PubMed:15175311] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)