GerD

• Description: required for fast repsonse to the presence of germinants
  
  

Gene name	gerD
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	lipoprotein
Function	germination
MW, pI	20 kDa, 4.862
Gene length, protein length	555 bp, 185 aa
Immediate neighbours	salA, kbaA
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU01550

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

Categories containing this gene/protein

germination, membrane proteins

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: inner spore membrane, spore coat, cortex, germ cell wall, some GerD is also present in the soluble fraction PubMed

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: P16450

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: gerD PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigF PubMed, SigG PubMed

• Regulation:

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody: available in Anne Moir lab

Labs working on this gene/protein

Anne Moir, University of Sheffield, UK