SspN

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

Gene name	sspN
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	small acid-soluble spore protein (minor)
Function	protection of spore DNA
Gene expression levels in SubtiExpress: sspN
MW, pI	5 kDa, 10.441
Gene length, protein length	144 bp, 48 aa
Immediate neighbours	ynzL, tlp
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
Genetic context This image was kindly provided by SubtiList
Expression at a glance   PubMed

Categories containing this gene/protein

sporulation proteins

This gene is a member of the following regulons

SigF regulon, SigG regulon

The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU18020

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family: sspN 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:
  • spore core (according to Swiss-Prot)

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: Q7WY69

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: sspN-tlp PubMed

• Expression browser: sspN PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigF PubMed, SigG PubMed

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

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody: