SspM

• Description: small acid-soluble spore protein (minor SASP)
  
  

Gene name	sspM
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	small acid-soluble spore protein (minor SASP)
Function	protection of spore DNA
MW, pI	3 kDa, 10.989
Gene length, protein length	102 bp, 34 aa
Immediate neighbours	yppD, yppC
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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Categories containing this gene/protein

sporulation proteins

This gene is a member of the following regulons

SigG regulon

The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU22290

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:

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: Q7WY65

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: sspM PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigG PubMed

• Regulation:
  • expressed late during sporulation in the forespore SigG PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody: