SleB

• Description: spore cortex-lytic enzyme
  
  

Gene name	sleB
Synonyms	ypeA
Essential	no
Product	spore cortex-lytic enzyme
Function	degration of the spore cortex, germination
MW, pI	33 kDa, 9.506
Gene length, protein length	915 bp, 305 aa
Immediate neighbours	ypeB, prsW
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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Categories containing this gene/protein

germination

This gene is a member of the following regulons

SigG regulon

The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU22930

Expression

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family: sleB 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: P50739

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: sleB-ypeB PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigG PubMed

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

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody: