YoaJ

• Description: bacterial expansin, required for the colonization of maize roots
  
  

Gene name	yoaJ
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	expansin
Function	interaction with plant roots
MW, pI	25 kDa, 9.447
Gene length, protein length	696 bp, 232 aa
Immediate neighbours	yoaI, yoaK
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
Genetic context This image was kindly provided by SubtiList

Categories containing this gene/protein

lifestyles/ miscellaneous

This gene is a member of the following regulons

Fur regulon

The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU18630

Phenotypes of a mutant

strongly reduced ability to colonize maize roots PubMed

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family: expansin PubMed

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:

• Localization: extracellular PubMed

Database entries

• Structure: 3D3O PubMed

• UniProt: O34918

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: yoaJ PubMed

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation:
  • induced upon iron starvation (Fur) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • Fur: transcription repression PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody: