SpsJ

• Description: spore coat polysaccharide synthesis
  
  

Gene name	spsJ
Synonyms	ipa-72d
Essential	no
Product	unknown
Function	spore coat polysaccharide synthesis
MW, pI	35 kDa, 6.286
Gene length, protein length	945 bp, 315 aa
Immediate neighbours	spsK, spsI
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU37830

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

Categories containing this gene/protein

sporulation proteins

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family: sugar epimerase 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:

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: P39630

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: spsA-spsB-spsC-spsD-spsF-spsG-spsI-spsJ-spsK-spsL PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigK PubMed

• Regulation:
  • expressed late during sporulation in the mother cell (SigK) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody: