GerKC

• Description: Nutrient receptor
  
  

Gene name	gerKC
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	Nutrient receptor
Function	germination
MW, pI	45 kDa, 9.038
Gene length, protein length	1221 bp, 407 aa
Immediate neighbours	gerKA, gerKB
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU03710

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family: gerABKC lipoprotein family (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:

• Localization: cell membrane (according to Swiss-Prot)

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: P49941

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: gerKA-gerKC-gerKB (according to DBTBS)

• Sigma factor: SigG PubMed

• Regulation:
  • expressed during sporulation (SigG, SpoVT) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • SpoVT: transcription repression PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody: