LigD

• Description: confers dry-heat resistance to dormant spores PubMed, similar to ATP-dependent DNA ligase
  
  

Gene name	ykoU
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	unknown
Function	confers dry-heat resistance to dormant spores
Gene expression levels in SubtiExpress: ykoU
MW, pI	70 kDa, 6.646
Gene length, protein length	1833 bp, 611 aa
Immediate neighbours	ykoT, ykoV
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

sporulation proteins

This gene is a member of the following regulons

SigG regulon

The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU13400

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: no entry

• SubtiList entry: [1]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

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• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

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Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: O34398

• KEGG entry: [2]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: ykoV-ykoU PubMed

• Expression browser: ykoU PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigG PubMed

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

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Biological materials

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• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

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References

Stephanie T Wang, Barbara Setlow, Erin M Conlon, Jessica L Lyon, Daisuke Imamura, Tsutomu Sato, Peter Setlow, Richard Losick, Patrick Eichenberger
The forespore line of gene expression in Bacillus subtilis.
J Mol Biol: 2006, 358(1);16-37
[PubMed:16497325] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)