YfkJ

• Description: general stress protein, protein tyrosine phosphatase
  
  

Gene name	yfkJ
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	protein tyrosine phosphatase
Function	survival of ethanol stress
MW, pI	17 kDa, 4.563
Gene length, protein length	468 bp, 156 aa
Immediate neighbours	yfkK, yfkI
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU07880

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: Protein tyrosine phosphate + H₂O = protein tyrosine + phosphate (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Protein family: low molecular weight phosphotyrosine protein phosphatase family (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s): YwlE

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:

• Localization:

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: O35016

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number: 3.1.3.48

Expression and regulation

• Operon:

• Sigma factor: SigB PubMed

• Regulation: induced by stress (SigB) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Lucia Musumeci, Cristina Bongiorni, Lutz Tautz, Robert A Edwards, Andrei Osterman, Marta Perego, Tomas Mustelin, Nunzio Bottini
Low-molecular-weight protein tyrosine phosphatases of Bacillus subtilis.
J Bacteriol: 2005, 187(14);4945-56
[PubMed:15995210] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Ivan Mijakovic, Lucia Musumeci, Lutz Tautz, Dina Petranovic, Robert A Edwards, Peter Ruhdal Jensen, Tomas Mustelin, Josef Deutscher, Nunzio Bottini
In vitro characterization of the Bacillus subtilis protein tyrosine phosphatase YwqE.
J Bacteriol: 2005, 187(10);3384-90
[PubMed:15866923] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Dirk Höper, Uwe Völker, Michael Hecker
Comprehensive characterization of the contribution of individual SigB-dependent general stress genes to stress resistance of Bacillus subtilis.
J Bacteriol: 2005, 187(8);2810-26
[PubMed:15805528] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)