YkvQ

• Description: similar to chitinase
  
  

Gene name	ykvQ
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	unknown
Function	unknown
MW, pI	26 kDa, 8.949
Gene length, protein length	696 bp, 232 aa
Immediate neighbours	ykvP, ykvR
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
Genetic context This image was kindly provided by SubtiList
Expression at a glance   PubMed 500px

Categories containing this gene/protein

sporulation proteins, poorly characterized/ putative enzymes

This gene is a member of the following regulons

SigK regulon

The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU13790

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family: glycosyl hydrolase 18 family (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:

• Localization:

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: O31682

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: ykvP-ykvQ PubMed

• Expression browser: ykvQ PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigK PubMed

• Regulation:
  • expressed late during sporulation in the mother cell (SigK) PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Leif Steil, Mónica Serrano, Adriano O Henriques, Uwe Völker
Genome-wide analysis of temporally regulated and compartment-specific gene expression in sporulating cells of Bacillus subtilis.
Microbiology (Reading): 2005, 151(Pt 2);399-420
[PubMed:15699190] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

T Kodama, H Takamatsu, K Asai, N Ogasawara, Y Sadaie, K Watabe
Synthesis and characterization of the spore proteins of Bacillus subtilis YdhD, YkuD, and YkvP, which carry a motif conserved among cell wall binding proteins.
J Biochem: 2000, 128(4);655-63
[PubMed:11011148] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)