SpoIIIAB

• Description: required for SigG activation
  
  

Gene name	spoIIIAB
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	unknown
Function	activation of SigG
MW, pI	19 kDa, 9.214
Gene length, protein length	513 bp, 171 aa
Immediate neighbours	spoIIIAC, spoIIIAA
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU24420

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: membrane protein PubMed

Database entries

• Structure:

• Swiss prot entry: Q01368

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: spoIIIAA-spoIIIAB-spoIIIAC-spoIIIAD-spoIIIAE-spoIIIAF-spoIIIAG-spoIIIAH PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigE PubMed

• Regulation: expressed during sporulation in the mother cell (SigE) PubMed, switched off by SpoIIID PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism: SpoIIID: transcription repression PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Amy H Camp, Richard Losick
A novel pathway of intercellular signalling in Bacillus subtilis involves a protein with similarity to a component of type III secretion channels.
Mol Microbiol: 2008, 69(2);402-17
[PubMed:18485064] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

N Illing, J Errington
The spoIIIA operon of Bacillus subtilis defines a new temporal class of mother-cell-specific sporulation genes under the control of the sigma E form of RNA polymerase.
Mol Microbiol: 1991, 5(8);1927-40
[PubMed:1766372] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)