SpsD

• Description: spore coat polysaccharide synthesis
  
  

Gene name	spsD
Synonyms	ipa-66d
Essential	no
Product	unknown
Function	spore coat polysaccharide synthesis
MW, pI	32 kDa, 5.999
Gene length, protein length	867 bp, 289 aa
Immediate neighbours	spsE, spsC
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU37880

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

Categories containing this gene/protein

sporulation proteins

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:

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: P39624

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: spsA-spsB-spsC-spsD-spsF-spsG-spsI-spsJ-spsK-spsL PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigK PubMed

• Regulation:
  • expressed late during sporulation in the mother cell (SigK) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Patrick Eichenberger, Masaya Fujita, Shane T Jensen, Erin M Conlon, David Z Rudner, Stephanie T Wang, Caitlin Ferguson, Koki Haga, Tsutomu Sato, Jun S Liu, Richard Losick
The program of gene transcription for a single differentiating cell type during sporulation in Bacillus subtilis.
PLoS Biol: 2004, 2(10);e328
[PubMed:15383836] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

E Presecan, I Moszer, L Boursier, H Cruz Ramos, V de la Fuente, M-F Hullo, C Lelong, S Schleich, A Sekowska, B H Song, G Villani, F Kunst, A Danchin, P Glaser
The Bacillus subtilis genome from gerBC (311 degrees) to licR (334 degrees).
Microbiology (Reading): 1997, 143 ( Pt 10);3313-3328
[PubMed:9353933] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)