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• The 6th European Spores Conference will be held in London from April 9 to April 11, 2014. The meeting will be organized by Simon Cutting and Imrich Barak, website, contact
• The next European BACELL meeting will take place in Bratislava from April 29 to April 30, 2014. The meeting will be organized by Imrich Barak, website, contact
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Paper of the month: November 2013

• Cyclic di-AMP is an essential second messenger in B. subtilis and other Gram-positive bacteria. This molecule has been discovered only in 2008, and a lot of work has recently been devoted to the investigation of its function. This month, Nelson et al. from the lab of Ronald Breaker discovered that c-di-AMP binds to the ydaO riboswitch. This is extremely interesting since the molecule does also bind the KtrA potassium transporter. The ktrA-ktrB operon is also controlled by a ydaO riboswitch. Thus c-di-AMP is the first signalling nucleotide that controls a biological process by binding both a protein and the encoding mRNA.
• Relevant SubtiWiki pages: Ronald Breaker, ydaO riboswitch, KtrA, ydaO, metabolism of signalling nucleotides

James W Nelson, Narasimhan Sudarsan, Kazuhiro Furukawa, Zasha Weinberg, Joy X Wang, Ronald R Breaker
Riboswitches in eubacteria sense the second messenger c-di-AMP.
Nat Chem Biol: 2013, 9(12);834-9
[PubMed:24141192] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

• Additional papers on c-di-AMP from 2013

Rebecca M Corrigan, Ivan Campeotto, Tharshika Jeganathan, Kevin G Roelofs, Vincent T Lee, Angelika Gründling
Systematic identification of conserved bacterial c-di-AMP receptor proteins.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A: 2013, 110(22);9084-9
[PubMed:23671116] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Felix M P Mehne, Katrin Gunka, Hinnerk Eilers, Christina Herzberg, Volkhard Kaever, Jörg Stülke
Cyclic di-AMP homeostasis in bacillus subtilis: both lack and high level accumulation of the nucleotide are detrimental for cell growth.
J Biol Chem: 2013, 288(3);2004-17
[PubMed:23192352] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

• Previous papers of the month

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• Due to massive spam attacks, we had to change our policy for the creation of accounts. If you want to create an account, just send me a mail. We will create the account for you as quickly as possible, then you can change your password. This does not affect existing accounts, which remain active.
  
• Please remember that all members of the Bacillus community are invited to create accounts and to contribute to SubtiWiki!

News in SubtiWiki:

• April 2013: SubtiWiki uses a new, faster Mediawiki platform! The times for page access are significantly reduced. Enjoy!
• March 2013: updated Excel files that map all genes to categories and regulons as well as the general updated identity mapping of all genes were uploaded.
• October 2012: the essential genes have been categorized
• September 2012: 300 mutant strains available at the BGSC were added to the corresponding gene pages
• August 2012: SubtiExpress, the new compagnon of SubtiWiki devoted to gene expression is online! Try it out!
• April 2012: Links for expression data under 104 different conditions (based on Nicolas et al., 2012) have been added to the expression section of the individual gene pages
• April 2011: SubtInteract, a presentation of protein-protein interactions in B. subtilis, is online!
• December 2010: SubtiCellPublisher allows the conversion of CellDesigner diagrams to navigatable presentations in the style of SubtiPathways
• December 2010: all genes are linked to regulons, and the pages of the regulons provide an overview on all genes that are members of this specific regulon.
• December 2010: all genes/proteins are linked to categories, and the pages of the categories provide an overview on all genes/proteins that are members of this specific category.

Genes (examples)	Additional pages
spo0A	SubtiPathways
glnA	SubtInteract
rny	SubtiExpress
psdA	Regulons
pckA	methods
dnaA	metabolism
rnpA	categories
sigB	genome-wide analyses
ptkA	list of plasmids
mreC	labs working on Bacillus
ccpA	the people behind SubtiWiki
sr1	template

Publications describing SubtiWiki and SubtiPathways: