YjbC

• Description: general stress protein, required for survival of salt stress
  
  

Gene name	yjbC
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	unknown
Function	unknown
MW, pI	22 kDa, 5.14
Gene length, protein length	576 bp, 192 aa
Immediate neighbours	yjbB, spx
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
Genetic context This image was kindly provided by SubtiList

The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU11490

Phenotypes of a mutant

strongly impaired survival of salt stress 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):

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Database entries

• Structure:

• Swiss prot entry: O31601

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: yjbC-spx

• Sigma factor: four promoters upstream of yjbC: SigW, SigB, SigX, and unknown sigma PubMed

• Regulation: induced by stress (SigB) PubMed, Transcription is represed by PerR and YodB PubMed
  • repressed in the absence of hydrogen peroxide (PerR) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism: transcription repression
  • PerR: transcription repression PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Montira Leelakriangsak, Kazuo Kobayashi, Peter Zuber
Dual negative control of spx transcription initiation from the P3 promoter by repressors PerR and YodB in Bacillus subtilis.
J Bacteriol: 2007, 189(5);1736-44
[PubMed:17158660] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Dirk Höper, Uwe Völker, Michael Hecker
Comprehensive characterization of the contribution of individual SigB-dependent general stress genes to stress resistance of Bacillus subtilis.
J Bacteriol: 2005, 187(8);2810-26
[PubMed:15805528] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

H Antelmann, C Scharf, M Hecker
Phosphate starvation-inducible proteins of Bacillus subtilis: proteomics and transcriptional analysis.
J Bacteriol: 2000, 182(16);4478-90
[PubMed:10913081] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)