RapG

• Description: response regulator aspartate phosphatase
  
  

Gene name	rapG
Synonyms	yycM
Essential	no
Product	response regulator aspartate phosphatase
Function	control of sporulation initiation
MW, pI	42 kDa, 4.807
Gene length, protein length	1095 bp, 365 aa
Immediate neighbours	yycN, phrG
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU40300

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family: RAP family (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions: DegU-RapG

• Localization:

Database entries

• Structure:

• Swiss prot entry: O32294

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon:

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation: repressed by SinR PubMed
  • repressed by SinR PubMed
  • repressed by RghR PubMed

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

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Kentaro Hayashi, Tsukahara Kensuke, Kazuo Kobayashi, Naotake Ogasawara, Mitsuo Ogura
Bacillus subtilis RghR (YvaN) represses rapG and rapH, which encode inhibitors of expression of the srfA operon.
Mol Microbiol: 2006, 59(6);1714-29
[PubMed:16553878] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Frances Chu, Daniel B Kearns, Steven S Branda, Roberto Kolter, Richard Losick
Targets of the master regulator of biofilm formation in Bacillus subtilis.
Mol Microbiol: 2006, 59(4);1216-28
[PubMed:16430695] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)