BslA

• Description: required for complex colony architecture, facilitates biofilm matrix assembly
  
  

Gene name	yuaB
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	cell wall protein
Function	pellicle formation
MW, pI	19 kDa, 9.987
Gene length, protein length	543 bp, 181 aa
Immediate neighbours	gbsR, ktrA
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
Genetic context This image was kindly provided by SubtiList

Categories containing this gene/protein

biofilm formation

This gene is a member of the following regulons

AbrB regulon, DegU regulon

The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU31080

Phenotypes of a mutant

• reduced colony complexity PubMed

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: no entry

• SubtiList entry: [1]

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:
  • extracellular (signal peptide) PubMed
  • cell wall PubMed

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: P71014

• KEGG entry: [2]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon:

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation:
  • expression is down-regulated in a rok mutant (indirect effect) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • DegU-P: transcription activation PubMed, this might be indirect PubMed
  • AbrB: transcription repression PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody: