YkvT

• Description: similar to spore cortex-lytic enzyme, putative cell wall hydrolase
  
  

Gene name	ykvT
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	unknown
Function	unknown
Gene expression levels in SubtiExpress: ykvT
MW, pI	23 kDa, 9.793
Gene length, protein length	624 bp, 208 aa
Immediate neighbours	ykzS, ykvU
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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Expression at a glance   PubMed

Categories containing this gene/protein

cell wall degradation/ turnover

This gene is a member of the following regulons

WalR regulon

The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU13820

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family:

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

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• Modification:

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Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: O31685

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: ykvT (according to DBTBS)

• Expression browser: ykvT PubMed

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation:

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • WalR: transcription activation PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Alistair Howell, Sarah Dubrac, Kasper Krogh Andersen, David Noone, Juliette Fert, Tarek Msadek, Kevin Devine
Genes controlled by the essential YycG/YycF two-component system of Bacillus subtilis revealed through a novel hybrid regulator approach.
Mol Microbiol: 2003, 49(6);1639-55
[PubMed:12950927] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)