GerM

• Description: germination (cortex hydrolysis) and sporulation
  
  

Gene name	gerM
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	unknown
Function	germination (cortex hydrolysis) and sporulation
MW, pI	39 kDa, 4.683
Gene length, protein length	1098 bp, 366 aa
Immediate neighbours	rph, racE
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU28380

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:

• Swiss prot entry: P39072

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon:

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation: repressed by casamino acids PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Ulrike Mäder, Georg Homuth, Christian Scharf, Knut Büttner, Rüdiger Bode, Michael Hecker
Transcriptome and proteome analysis of Bacillus subtilis gene expression modulated by amino acid availability.
J Bacteriol: 2002, 184(15);4288-95
[PubMed:12107147] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

G M Slynn, R L Sammons, D A Smith, A Moir, B M Corfe
Molecular genetical and phenotypical analysis of the gerM spore germination gene of Bacillus subtilis 168.
FEMS Microbiol Lett: 1994, 121(3);315-20
[PubMed:7926687] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)