SspI

• Description: small acid-soluble spore protein (minor), SASP
  
  

Gene name	sspI
Synonyms	ysfA
Essential	no
Product	small acid-soluble spore protein (minor), SASP
Function	protection of spore DNA
MW, pI	7 kDa, 4.486
Gene length, protein length	213 bp, 71 aa
Immediate neighbours	ysgA, ysfB
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU28660

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

Categories containing this gene/protein

sporulation proteins

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

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

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:

• Localization:

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: P94537

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: sspI PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigG PubMed

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

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Stephanie T Wang, Barbara Setlow, Erin M Conlon, Jessica L Lyon, Daisuke Imamura, Tsutomu Sato, Peter Setlow, Richard Losick, Patrick Eichenberger
The forespore line of gene expression in Bacillus subtilis.
J Mol Biol: 2006, 358(1);16-37
[PubMed:16497325] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

A Cabrera-Hernandez, P Setlow
Analysis of the regulation and function of five genes encoding small, acid-soluble spore proteins of Bacillus subtilis.
Gene: 2000, 248(1-2);169-81
[PubMed:10806362] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)