PdaB

• Description: polysaccharide deacetylase
  
  

Gene name	pdaB
Synonyms	ybaN
Essential	no
Product	polysaccharide deacetylase
Function	spore cortex formation
MW, pI	28 kDa, 9.182
Gene length, protein length	762 bp, 254 aa
Immediate neighbours	kbaA, rrnI-16S
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU01570

Phenotypes of a mutant

pdaB ytrI and pdaB ytrH mutants are deficient in sporulation

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family: polysaccharide deacetylase 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: forespore (according to Swiss-Prot)

Database entries

• Structure:

• Swiss prot entry: P50865

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: pdaB PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigE PubMed

• Regulation: expressed during sporulation in the mother cell PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism: SpoIIID: transcription repression PubMed

• Additional information: the mRNA is very stable (half-life > 15 min) PubMed

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody: