CsbB

• Description: general stress protein
  
  

Gene name	csbB
Synonyms	yfhN
Essential	no
Product	unknown
Function	survival of ethanol and salt stress
MW, pI	37 kDa, 9.199
Gene length, protein length	987 bp, 329 aa
Immediate neighbours	yfhM, yfhO
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
Genetic context This image was kindly provided by SubtiList

Categories containing this gene/protein

general stress proteins (controlled by SigB), cell envelope stress proteins (controlled by SigM, V, W, X, Y), membrane proteins

This gene is a member of the following regulons

SigB regulon, SigX regulon

The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU08600

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family: GtrB subfamily (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:

• Localization:
  • cell membrane (according to Swiss-Prot)

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: Q45539

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: csbB PubMed

• Expression browser: csbB PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigB PubMed, SigX PubMed

• Regulation: induced by stress (SigB) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

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)

X Huang, J D Helmann
Identification of target promoters for the Bacillus subtilis sigma X factor using a consensus-directed search.
J Mol Biol: 1998, 279(1);165-73
[PubMed:9636707] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

S Akbar, C W Price
Isolation and characterization of csbB, a gene controlled by Bacillus subtilis general stress transcription factor sigma B.
Gene: 1996, 177(1-2);123-8
[PubMed:8921856] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)