SmiA

• Description: inhibitor of swarming motility
  
  

Gene name	smiA
Synonyms	yvzG
Essential	no
Product	inhibitor of swarming motility
Function	control of swarming
MW, pI	15 kDa, 4.673
Gene length, protein length	375 bp, 125 aa
Immediate neighbours	yvyD, fliT
Gene sequence (+200bp)	Protein sequence
Genetic context File:YvzG context.gif

Categories containing this gene/protein

motility and chemotaxis

The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU35319

Phenotypes of a mutant

A mutation in smiA suppresses the motility defect of a lytC mutant PubMed

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: no entry

• SubtiList entry: no entry

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:

• UniProt: C0H3R9

• KEGG entry:

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon:

• Expression browser: smiA PubMed

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation:

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant: available in the Daniel Kearns lab

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

Labs working on this gene/protein

Daniel Kearns, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA, homepage

References

Rui Chen, Sarah B Guttenplan, Kris M Blair, Daniel B Kearns
Role of the sigmaD-dependent autolysins in Bacillus subtilis population heterogeneity.
J Bacteriol: 2009, 191(18);5775-84
[PubMed:19542270] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)