YlmC

• Description: sporulation protein
  
  

Gene name	ylmC
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	sporulation protein
Function	unknown
Gene expression levels in SubtiExpress: ylmC
MW, pI	8 kDa, 5.635
Gene length, protein length	243 bp, 81 aa
Immediate neighbours	ylmB, ylmD
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

SigE regulon, SpoIIID regulon

The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU15360

Phenotypes of a mutant

• a ylmC ymxH double mutant has a severe sporulation defect (1% sporulation as compared to the wild type or single mutants), the block is at stage III of sporulation PubMed

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: no entry

• SubtiList entry: [1]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family:

• Paralogous protein(s): YmxH

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:

• Localization:

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: O31725

• KEGG entry: [2]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon:

• Expression browser: ylmC PubMed

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation:
  • expressed early during sporulation in the mother cell (SigE, SpoIIID) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • SpoIIID: transcrition repression PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Ana B Abecasis, Mónica Serrano, Renato Alves, Leonor Quintais, José B Pereira-Leal, Adriano O Henriques
A genomic signature and the identification of new sporulation genes.
J Bacteriol: 2013, 195(9);2101-15
[PubMed:23396918] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Bjorn A Traag, Antonia Pugliese, Jonathan A Eisen, Richard Losick
Gene conservation among endospore-forming bacteria reveals additional sporulation genes in Bacillus subtilis.
J Bacteriol: 2013, 195(2);253-60
[PubMed:23123912] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)