SspK

• Description: small acid-soluble spore protein (minor) SASP
  
  

Gene name	sspK
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	small acid-soluble spore protein (minor) SASP
Function	protection of spore DNA
Gene expression levels in SubtiExpress: sspK
MW, pI	5 kDa, 10.18
Gene length, protein length	150 bp, 50 aa
Immediate neighbours	yfhI, yfhJ
Sequences	Protein DNA Advanced_DNA
Genetic context This image was kindly provided by SubtiList
Expression at a glance   PubMed

Categories containing this gene/protein

sporulation proteins

This gene is a member of the following regulons

SigG regulon

The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU08550

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family: sspK 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:
  • spore core (according to Swiss-Prot)

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: Q7WY75

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: sspK PubMed

• Expression browser: sspK PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigG PubMed

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

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody: