CspC

Gene name	cspC
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	cold shock protein
Function	RNA chaperone
Gene expression levels in SubtiExpress: cspC
MW, pI	7 kDa, 4.518
Gene length, protein length	198 bp, 66 aa
Immediate neighbours	ydeA, ydeB
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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Expression at a glance   PubMed

Categories containing this gene/protein

RNA chaperones, cold stress proteins

The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU05120

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: no entry

• SubtiList entry: [1]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family:

• Paralogous protein(s): CspB, CspD

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:

• Localization:
  • cytoplasm (according to Swiss-Prot)

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: P39158

• KEGG entry: [2]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon:

• Expression browser: cspC PubMed

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation:
  • induced by cold shock (9-fold) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system: B. pertussis adenylate cyclase-based bacterial two hybrid system (BACTH), available in Stülke lab

• Antibody:

References

Michael H Weber, Mohamed A Marahiel
Bacterial cold shock responses.
Sci Prog: 2003, 86(Pt 1-2);9-75
[PubMed:12838604] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Tanja Kaan, Georg Homuth, Ulrike Mäder, Julia Bandow, Thomas Schweder
Genome-wide transcriptional profiling of the Bacillus subtilis cold-shock response.
Microbiology (Reading): 2002, 148(Pt 11);3441-3455
[PubMed:12427936] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Carsten L Beckering, Leif Steil, Michael H W Weber, Uwe Völker, Mohamed A Marahiel
Genomewide transcriptional analysis of the cold shock response in Bacillus subtilis.
J Bacteriol: 2002, 184(22);6395-402
[PubMed:12399512] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Michael H W Weber, Mohamed A Marahiel
Coping with the cold: the cold shock response in the Gram-positive soil bacterium Bacillus subtilis.
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci: 2002, 357(1423);895-907
[PubMed:12171653] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Michael H W Weber, Ingo Fricke, Niclas Doll, Mohamed A Marahiel
CSDBase: an interactive database for cold shock domain-containing proteins and the bacterial cold shock response.
Nucleic Acids Res: 2002, 30(1);375-8
[PubMed:11752341] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

M H Weber, C L Beckering, M A Marahiel
Complementation of cold shock proteins by translation initiation factor IF1 in vivo.
J Bacteriol: 2001, 183(24);7381-6
[PubMed:11717297] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

M H Weber, A V Volkov, I Fricke, M A Marahiel, P L Graumann
Localization of cold shock proteins to cytosolic spaces surrounding nucleoids in Bacillus subtilis depends on active transcription.
J Bacteriol: 2001, 183(21);6435-43
[PubMed:11591689] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

T Schindler, P L Graumann, D Perl, S Ma, F X Schmid, M A Marahiel
The family of cold shock proteins of Bacillus subtilis. Stability and dynamics in vitro and in vivo.
J Biol Chem: 1999, 274(6);3407-13
[PubMed:9920884] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

P L Graumann, M A Marahiel
Cold shock proteins CspB and CspC are major stationary-phase-induced proteins in Bacillus subtilis.
Arch Microbiol: 1999, 171(2);135-8
[PubMed:9914312] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

P Graumann, T M Wendrich, M H Weber, K Schröder, M A Marahiel
A family of cold shock proteins in Bacillus subtilis is essential for cellular growth and for efficient protein synthesis at optimal and low temperatures.
Mol Microbiol: 1997, 25(4);741-56
[PubMed:9379903] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)