SpsL

• Description: spore coat polysaccharide synthesis
  
  

Gene name	spsL
Synonyms	ipa-73d
Essential	no
Product	unknown
Function	spore coat polysaccharide synthesis
MW, pI	17 kDa, 4.878
Gene length, protein length	453 bp, 151 aa
Immediate neighbours	yweA, spsK
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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Categories containing this gene/protein

sporulation proteins

This gene is a member of the following regulons

SigK regulon

The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU37810

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

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• Protein family:

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

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Database entries

• Structure: 3RYK (dTDP-4-dehydrorhamnose 3,5-epimerase (rfbC) from Bacillus anthracis str. Ames with TDP and PPi bound, 32% identity, 56% similarity)

• UniProt: Q7WY56

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: spsA-spsB-spsC-spsD-spsF-spsG-spsI-spsJ-spsK-spsL PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigK PubMed

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

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Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody: