veg

veg
168

negative effector of SinR activity

Locus
BSU_00440
Molecular weight
9.41 kDa
Isoelectric point
4.81
Protein length
86 aaSequenceBlast
Gene length
261 bpSequenceBlast
Function
control of biofilm formation
Product
negative effector of SinR activity
Essential
no
Synonyms
veg
Outlinks
BsubCyc SubtiList UniProt STRING Genoscapist PaperBLAST

Genomic Context

List of homologs in different organisms, belongs to COG4466 (Galperin et al., 2021)

This gene is a member of the following regulons

SigA regulon

Gene
Coordinates
52,763 → 53,023
Phenotypes of a mutant
inactivation of the veg gene suppresses the growth defect of a cspB cspD double mutant PubMed
The protein
Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity
overexpression of veg induces expression of the tapA-sipW-tasA operon PubMed
Veg may inhibit the SlrR-SinR interaction PubMed
Structure
3FB9 (PDB) (from Streptococcus pneumoniae, 34% identity)
P37466 (AlphaFold)
Localization
cytoplasm PubMed
Expression and Regulation
Operons
Genes
veg
Description
PubMed
Regulation
constitutively expressed PubMed
Sigma factors
SigA: sigma factor, PubMed, in sigA regulon
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Biological materials
Mutant
GP2888 (Δveg::ermC trpC2) available in Jörg Stülke's lab PubMed
MGNA-B909 (veg::erm), available at the NBRP B. subtilis, Japan
BKE00440 (Δveg::erm  trpC2) available at BGSC,  PubMed, upstream reverse: _UP1_CATTGCATCCACCTCACTAC,  downstream forward: _UP4_TAACGGGCAGTGAACCTTTT
BKK00440 (Δveg::kan  trpC2) available at BGSC,  PubMed, upstream reverse: _UP1_CATTGCATCCACCTCACTAC,  downstream forward: _UP4_TAACGGGCAGTGAACCTTTT
Expression vectors
pGP3138: Constitutive overexpression, based on pBQ200, available in Jörg Stülke's lab
LacZ fusion
GP2898 (amyE::(Pveg-lacZ cat) trpC2) available in Jörg Stülke's lab
References
Faßhauer P, Busche T, Kalinowski J, Mäder U, Poehlein A, Daniel R, Stülke JFunctional Redundancy and Specialization of the Conserved Cold Shock Proteins in Bacillus subtilis.Microorganisms. 2021 Jul 2; 9(7). PMID: 34361870
Trip EN, Veening JW, Stewart EJ, Errington J, Scheffers DJ Balanced transcription of cell division genes in Bacillus subtilis as revealed by single cell analysis. Environmental microbiology. 2013 Dec; 15(12):3196-209. doi:10.1111/1462-2920.12148. PMID:23701187
Lei Y, Oshima T, Ogasawara N, Ishikawa S Functional analysis of the protein Veg, which stimulates biofilm formation in Bacillus subtilis. Journal of bacteriology. 2013 Apr; 195(8):1697-705. doi:10.1128/JB.02201-12. PMID:23378512
Fukushima T, Ishikawa S, Yamamoto H, Ogasawara N, Sekiguchi J Transcriptional, functional and cytochemical analyses of the veg gene in Bacillus subtilis. Journal of biochemistry. 2003 Apr; 133(4):475-83. . PMID:12761295

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