YknX

• Description: ABC-type antimicrobial peptide transporter (permease)
  
  

Gene name	yknX
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	ABC-type antimicrobial peptide transporter (permease)
Function	resistence against SdpC toxin
MW, pI	41 kDa, 5.178
Gene length, protein length	1131 bp, 377 aa
Immediate neighbours	yknW, yknY
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU14350

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

Categories containing this gene/protein

ABC transporters, cell envelope stress proteins (controlled by SigM, W, X, Y), resistance against toxins/ antibiotics, 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: membrane protein

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: O31710

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: yknW-yknX-yknY-yknZ PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigW PubMed

• Regulation:
  • repressed during logrithmic growth (AbrB) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • AbrB: transcription repression PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Bronwyn G Butcher, John D Helmann
Identification of Bacillus subtilis sigma-dependent genes that provide intrinsic resistance to antimicrobial compounds produced by Bacilli.
Mol Microbiol: 2006, 60(3);765-82
[PubMed:16629676] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Qiang Qian, Chien Y Lee, John D Helmann, Mark A Strauch
AbrB is a regulator of the sigma(W) regulon in Bacillus subtilis.
FEMS Microbiol Lett: 2002, 211(2);219-23
[PubMed:12076816] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

X Huang, A Gaballa, M Cao, J D Helmann
Identification of target promoters for the Bacillus subtilis extracytoplasmic function sigma factor, sigma W.
Mol Microbiol: 1999, 31(1);361-71
[PubMed:9987136] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)