EpsE

• Description: inhibitor of motility
  
  

Gene name	epsE
Synonyms	yveO
Essential	no
Product	inhibitor of motility
Function	biofilm formation
Regulation of this protein in SubtiPathways: Biofilm
MW, pI	32 kDa, 9.804
Gene length, protein length	834 bp, 278 aa
Immediate neighbours	epsF, epsD
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU34330

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

Categories containing this gene/protein

motility and chemotaxis, biofilm formation, membrane proteins

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:
  • arrests flagellar rotation in a manner similar to that of a clutch, by disengaging motor force-generating elements in cells embedded in the biofilm matrix PubMed

• Protein family: glycosyltransferase 2 family (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions: EpsE-FliG PubMed

• Localization: cell membrane, forms spots at flagellar basal bodies PubMed

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: P71054

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: epsA-epsB-epsC-epsD-epsE-epsF-epsG-epsH-epsI-epsJ-epsK-epsL-epsM-epsN-epsO PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigA PubMed

• Regulation:
  • repressed by SinR PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • SinR: transcription repression PubMed
  • AbrB: transcription repression PubMed

• Additional information:
  • induction by sequestration of SinR by SinI or SlrA PubMed

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

Labs working on this gene/protein

• Daniel Kearns, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA, homepage
• Richard Losick, Harvard Univ., Cambridge, USA homepage

References

Reviews

Massimiliano Marvasi, Pieter T Visscher, Lilliam Casillas Martinez
Exopolymeric substances (EPS) from Bacillus subtilis: polymers and genes encoding their synthesis.
FEMS Microbiol Lett: 2010, 313(1);1-9
[PubMed:20735481] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)