YmxH
- Description: sporulation protein
| Gene name | ymxH |
| Synonyms | |
| Essential | no |
| Product | sporulation protein |
| Function | unknown |
| Gene expression levels in SubtiExpress: ymxH | |
| MW, pI | 9 kDa, 5.437 |
| Gene length, protein length | 255 bp, 85 aa |
| Immediate neighbours | mlpA, spoVFA |
| Sequences | Protein DNA DNA_with_flanks |
Genetic context 
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Expression at a glance PubMed
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Contents
Categories containing this gene/protein
This gene is a member of the following regulons
The gene
Basic information
- Locus tag: BSU16720
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: [1]
- SubtiList entry: [2]
Additional information
The protein
Basic information/ Evolution
- Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:
- Protein family:
- Paralogous protein(s): YlmC
Extended information on the protein
- Kinetic information:
- Domains:
- Modification:
- Cofactor(s):
- Effectors of protein activity:
Database entries
- Structure:
- UniProt: Q04811
- KEGG entry: [3]
- E.C. number:
Additional information
Expression and regulation
- Operon: ymxH PubMed
- Regulation:
- expressed early during sporulation in the mother cell (SigE) PubMed
- Regulatory mechanism:
- Additional information:
Biological materials
- Mutant:
- Expression vector:
- lacZ fusion:
- GFP fusion:
- two-hybrid system:
- Antibody:
Labs working on this gene/protein
Your additional remarks
References
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)
Pierre Nicolas, Ulrike Mäder, Etienne Dervyn, Tatiana Rochat, Aurélie Leduc, Nathalie Pigeonneau, Elena Bidnenko, Elodie Marchadier, Mark Hoebeke, Stéphane Aymerich, Dörte Becher, Paola Bisicchia, Eric Botella, Olivier Delumeau, Geoff Doherty, Emma L Denham, Mark J Fogg, Vincent Fromion, Anne Goelzer, Annette Hansen, Elisabeth Härtig, Colin R Harwood, Georg Homuth, Hanne Jarmer, Matthieu Jules, Edda Klipp, Ludovic Le Chat, François Lecointe, Peter Lewis, Wolfram Liebermeister, Anika March, Ruben A T Mars, Priyanka Nannapaneni, David Noone, Susanne Pohl, Bernd Rinn, Frank Rügheimer, Praveen K Sappa, Franck Samson, Marc Schaffer, Benno Schwikowski, Leif Steil, Jörg Stülke, Thomas Wiegert, Kevin M Devine, Anthony J Wilkinson, Jan Maarten van Dijl, Michael Hecker, Uwe Völker, Philippe Bessières, Philippe Noirot
Condition-dependent transcriptome reveals high-level regulatory architecture in Bacillus subtilis.
Science: 2012, 335(6072);1103-6
[PubMed:22383849]
[WorldCat.org]
[DOI]
(I p)
Andrea Feucht, Louise Evans, Jeff Errington
Identification of sporulation genes by genome-wide analysis of the sigmaE regulon of Bacillus subtilis.
Microbiology (Reading): 2003, 149(Pt 10);3023-3034
[PubMed:14523133]
[WorldCat.org]
[DOI]
(P p)
N Y Chen, S Q Jiang, D A Klein, H Paulus
Organization and nucleotide sequence of the Bacillus subtilis diaminopimelate operon, a cluster of genes encoding the first three enzymes of diaminopimelate synthesis and dipicolinate synthase.
J Biol Chem: 1993, 268(13);9448-65
[PubMed:8098035]
[WorldCat.org]
(P p)
