YqfD

• Description: SigE-dependent sporulation gene, similar to UDP-glucose 4-epimerase
  
  

Gene name	yqfD
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	unknown
Function	sporulation
MW, pI	45 kDa, 9.997
Gene length, protein length	1194 bp, 398 aa
Immediate neighbours	phoH, yqfC
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU25350

Phenotypes of a mutant

defect in sporulation PubMed

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: cytoplasm (according to Swiss-Prot), Polar (Septum) PubMed

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: P54469

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon:

• Sigma factor: SigE PubMed

• Regulation:

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Jean-Christophe Meile, Ling Juan Wu, S Dusko Ehrlich, Jeff Errington, Philippe Noirot
Systematic localisation of proteins fused to the green fluorescent protein in Bacillus subtilis: identification of new proteins at the DNA replication factory.
Proteomics: 2006, 6(7);2135-46
[PubMed:16479537] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Andrea Feucht, Louise Evans, Jeff Errington
Identification of sporulation genes by genome-wide analysis of the sigmaE regulon of Bacillus subtilis.
Microbiology (Reading): 2003, 149(Pt 10);3023-3034
[PubMed:14523133] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Patrick Eichenberger, Shane T Jensen, Erin M Conlon, Christiaan van Ooij, Jessica Silvaggi, José Eduardo González-Pastor, Masaya Fujita, Sigal Ben-Yehuda, Patrick Stragier, Jun S Liu, Richard Losick
The sigmaE regulon and the identification of additional sporulation genes in Bacillus subtilis.
J Mol Biol: 2003, 327(5);945-72
[PubMed:12662922] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)