YvcK

• Description: essential for growth under gluconeogenetic conditions
  
  

Gene name	yvcK
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	unknown
Function	unknown
MW, pI	34 kDa, 5.408
Gene length, protein length	951 bp, 317 aa
Immediate neighbours	yvcL, yvcJ
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

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Database entries

• DBTBS entry: no entry

• SubtiList entry: [1]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

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Database entries

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• Swiss prot entry: O06974

• KEGG entry: [2]

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Expression and regulation

• Operon: yvcI-yvcJ-yvcK-yvcL-crh-yvcN PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigA PubMed

• Regulation: very weak stimuation of expression by citrate and succinate PubMed

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Biological materials

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• lacZ fusion:

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Labs working on this gene/protein

Boris Görke, University of Göttingen, Germany Homepage

Anne Galinier, University of Marseille, France

References

1. Galinier, A., Haiech, J., Kilhoffer, M.-C., Jaquinod, M., Stülke, J., Deutscher, J., & Martin-Verstraete, I. (1997) The Bacillus subtilis crh gene encodes a HPr-like protein involved in carbon catabolite repression. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 94: 8439-8444. PubMed
2. Görke et al. (2005) YvcK of Bacillus subtilis is required for a normal cell shape and for growth on Krebs cycle intermediates and substrates of the pentose phosphate pathway. Microbiology 151: 3777-3791. PubMed