YabQ

• Description: required for sporulation at a late stage
  
  

Gene name	yabQ
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	unknown
Function	sporulation
MW, pI	24 kDa, 10.738
Gene length, protein length	633 bp, 211 aa
Immediate neighbours	yabP, divIC
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU00610

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family:

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:

• Localization: forespore outer membrane (according to Swiss-Prot)

Database entries

• Structure:

• Swiss prot entry: P37559

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon:
  • yabM-yabN-yabO-yabP-yabQ-divIC-yabR PubMed
  • yabP-yabQ-divIC-yabR PubMed

• Sigma factor:
  • yabM: unknown
  • yabP: SigE PubMed

• Regulation: expressed during sporulation (SigE) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Kei Asai, Hiromu Takamatsu, Megumi Iwano, Takeko Kodama, Kazuhito Watabe, Naotake Ogasawara
The Bacillus subtilis yabQ gene is essential for formation of the spore cortex.
Microbiology (Reading): 2001, 147(Pt 4);919-927
[PubMed:11283287] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

P Fawcett, P Eichenberger, R Losick, P Youngman
The transcriptional profile of early to middle sporulation in Bacillus subtilis.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A: 2000, 97(14);8063-8
[PubMed:10869437] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)