YfmS

• Description: soluble chemotaxis receptor
  
  

Gene name	yfmS
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	soluble chemotaxis receptor
Function	control of chemotaxis
Gene expression levels in SubtiExpress: yfmS
MW, pI	30 kDa, 4.527
Gene length, protein length	858 bp, 286 aa
Immediate neighbours	yfmT, yfmR
Sequences	Protein DNA DNA_with_flanks
Genetic context This image was kindly provided by SubtiList
Expression at a glance   PubMed

Categories containing this gene/protein

motility and chemotaxis

This gene is a member of the following regulons

SigD regulon

The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU07360

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:
  • forms clusters at the cell poles PubMed

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: O06477

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: yfmT-yfmS PubMed

• Expression browser: yfmS PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigD PubMed

• Regulation:

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information:
  • in minimal medium, YfmS is present with 4,200 +/- 800 molecules per cell PubMed

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Vincent J Cannistraro, George D Glekas, Christopher V Rao, George W Ordal
Cellular stoichiometry of the chemotaxis proteins in Bacillus subtilis.
J Bacteriol: 2011, 193(13);3220-7
[PubMed:21515776] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Masakuni Serizawa, Hiroki Yamamoto, Hirotake Yamaguchi, Yasutaro Fujita, Kazuo Kobayashi, Naotake Ogasawara, Junichi Sekiguchi
Systematic analysis of SigD-regulated genes in Bacillus subtilis by DNA microarray and Northern blotting analyses.
Gene: 2004, 329;125-36
[PubMed:15033535] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Hiroki Yamamoto, Shigeki Uchiyama, Fajar Aji Nugroho, Junichi Sekiguchi
A 23.4 kb segment at the 69 degrees-70 degrees region of the Bacillus subtilis genome.
Microbiology (Reading): 1997, 143 ( Pt 4);1317-1320
[PubMed:9141694] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)