YaaT

• Description: control of the phosphorelay, required for the achieving a sufficient level of Spo0A-P for sporulation initiation
  
  

Gene name	yaaT
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	unknown
Function	regulation of sporulation initiation
MW, pI	31 kDa, 4.838
Gene length, protein length	825 bp, 275 aa
Immediate neighbours	holB, yabA
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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Categories containing this gene/protein

phosphorelay, membrane proteins

The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU00320

Phenotypes of a mutant

• block of sporulation at stage 0 PubMed

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: no entry

• SubtiList entry: [1]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

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• Protein family:

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

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• Localization:
  • peripheral membrane, as well as to the septum, during sporulation PubMed

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: P37541

• KEGG entry: [2]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon:

• Expression browser: yaaT PubMed

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Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Shigeo Hosoya, Kei Asai, Naotake Ogasawara, Michio Takeuchi, Tsutomu Sato
Mutation in yaaT leads to significant inhibition of phosphorelay during sporulation in Bacillus subtilis.
J Bacteriol: 2002, 184(20);5545-53
[PubMed:12270811] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)