SplA

• Description: transcriptional repressor of the spore photoproduct lyase splA-splB operon
  
  

Gene name	splA
Synonyms	ykxI
Essential	no
Product	transcriptional regulator
Function	regulation of the splA-splB operon
MW, pI	9 kDa, 4.419
Gene length, protein length	237 bp, 79 aa
Immediate neighbours	ptsI, splB
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU13920

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

Categories containing this gene/protein

DNA repair/ recombination, transcription factors and their control, 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: P37955

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: splA-splB PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigG PubMed

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

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • negative autoregulation by SplA PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Leif Steil, Mónica Serrano, Adriano O Henriques, Uwe Völker
Genome-wide analysis of temporally regulated and compartment-specific gene expression in sporulating cells of Bacillus subtilis.
Microbiology (Reading): 2005, 151(Pt 2);399-420
[PubMed:15699190] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

M Pedraza-Reyes, F Gutiérrez-Corona, W L Nicholson
Temporal regulation and forespore-specific expression of the spore photoproduct lyase gene by sigma-G RNA polymerase during Bacillus subtilis sporulation.
J Bacteriol: 1994, 176(13);3983-91
[PubMed:8021181] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)