YkvU

• Description: spore cortex membrane protein, required for germination at high pressure
  
  

Gene name	ykvU
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	spore cortex membrane protein
Function	germination at high pressure
MW, pI	49 kDa, 9.551
Gene length, protein length	1335 bp, 445 aa
Immediate neighbours	ykvT, stoA
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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Categories containing this gene/protein

germination, membrane proteins

This gene is a member of the following regulons

SigE regulon

The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU13830

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family:

• Paralogous protein(s): SpoVB, YabM, YtgP

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:

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

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: O31686

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: ykvU-stoA PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigE PubMed

• Regulation:
  • expressed early during sporulation in the mother cell (SigE) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody: