SpoVE

• Description: required for spore cortex peptidoglycan synthesis
  
  

Gene name	spoVE
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	unknown
Function	spore cortex peptidoglycan synthesis
Metabolic function and regulation of this protein in SubtiPathways: Cell wall
MW, pI	39 kDa, 9.853
Gene length, protein length	1098 bp, 366 aa
Immediate neighbours	murD, murG
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU15210

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

Categories containing this gene/protein

cell wall synthesis, biosynthesis of cell wall components, sporulation proteins, membrane proteins

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family: ftsW/rodA/spoVE family (according to Swiss-Prot) SEDS proteins (shape, elongation, division, and sporulation)

• Paralogous protein(s): FtsW, RodA

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:
  • SpoVD-SpoVE PubMed, this protects SpoVE from proteolytic degradation PubMed

• Localization: integral membrane protein, forespore PubMed

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: P07373

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon:
  • murE-mraY-murD-spoVE-murG-murB-divIB-ylxW-ylxX-sbp PubMed
  • spoVE-murG-murB-divIB-ylxW-ylxX-sbp PubMed
  • spoVE PubMed

• Sigma factor:
  • spoVE: SigE PubMed

• Regulation:
  • expressed during vegatative growth, then switched off, and again expressed during sporulation in the mother cell (SigE) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • SpoIIID: transcription repression PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Allison Fay, Pablo Meyer, Jonathan Dworkin
Interactions between late-acting proteins required for peptidoglycan synthesis during sporulation.
J Mol Biol: 2010, 399(4);547-61
[PubMed:20417640] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Gonçalo Real, Allison Fay, Avigdor Eldar, Sérgio M Pinto, Adriano O Henriques, Jonathan Dworkin
Determinants for the subcellular localization and function of a nonessential SEDS protein.
J Bacteriol: 2008, 190(1);363-76
[PubMed:17981970] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Patrick Eichenberger, Masaya Fujita, Shane T Jensen, Erin M Conlon, David Z Rudner, Stephanie T Wang, Caitlin Ferguson, Koki Haga, Tsutomu Sato, Jun S Liu, Richard Losick
The program of gene transcription for a single differentiating cell type during sporulation in Bacillus subtilis.
PLoS Biol: 2004, 2(10);e328
[PubMed:15383836] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

G Theeragool, A Miyao, K Yamada, T Sato, Y Kobayashi
In vivo expression of the Bacillus subtilis spoVE gene.
J Bacteriol: 1993, 175(13);4071-80
[PubMed:8320223] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

A O Henriques, H de Lencastre, P J Piggot
A Bacillus subtilis morphogene cluster that includes spoVE is homologous to the mra region of Escherichia coli.
Biochimie: 1992, 74(7-8);735-48
[PubMed:1391053] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)