SpoVAEB

• Description: spore germinant protein, essential for the transport of the 1:1 chelate of pyridine-2,6-dicarboxylic acid (DPA(2,6)) and Ca(2+)
  
  

Gene name	spoVAEB
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	spore germinant protein
Function	spore germination
Gene expression levels in SubtiExpress: spoVAEB
MW, pI	12 kDa, 6.250
Gene length, protein length	348 bp, 116 aa
Immediate neighbours	spoVAEA, spoVAD
Gene sequence (+200bp)	Protein sequence
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Categories containing this gene/protein

germination, membrane proteins

This gene is a member of the following regulons

SigG regulon, SpoVT regulon

The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU23402

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: no entry

• SubtiList entry: no entry

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

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• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

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Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: C0H450

• KEGG entry:

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Expression and regulation

• Operon: spoVAA-spoVAB-spoVAC-spoVAD-spoVAEB-spoVAEA-spoVAF-lysA PubMed

• Expression browser: spoVAEB PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigG PubMed

• Regulation:
  • expressed late during sporulation in the forespore (SigG, SpoVT) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • SpoVT: transcription activation PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

Labs working on this gene/protein

• Peter Setlow, University of Connecticut Health Center, USA