YxdJ

• Description: two-component response regulator, regulation of the ABC transporter YxdL-YxdM in response to the cationic antimicrobial peptide, LL-37
  
  

Gene name	yxdJ
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	two-component response regulator
Function	resistance against toxic peptides
MW, pI	26 kDa, 4.937
Gene length, protein length	687 bp, 229 aa
Immediate neighbours	yxdK, iolJ
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU39660

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

Categories containing this gene/protein

transcription factors and their control, resistance against toxins/ antibiotics, phosphoproteins

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family:

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification: phosphorylated by YxdK on an Asp residue

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions: YxdK-YxdJ

• Localization: cytoplasm (according to Swiss-Prot)

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: P42421

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: yxdJ-yxdK PubMed

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation:

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Anna Staroń, Dora Elisabeth Finkeisen, Thorsten Mascher
Peptide antibiotic sensing and detoxification modules of Bacillus subtilis.
Antimicrob Agents Chemother: 2011, 55(2);515-25
[PubMed:21078927] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Hanne-Leena Hyyryläinen, Milla Pietiäinen, Tuula Lundén, Anna Ekman, Marika Gardemeister, Sanna Murtomäki-Repo, Haike Antelmann, Michael Hecker, Leena Valmu, Matti Sarvas, Vesa P Kontinen
The density of negative charge in the cell wall influences two-component signal transduction in Bacillus subtilis.
Microbiology (Reading): 2007, 153(Pt 7);2126-2136
[PubMed:17600057] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Pascale Joseph, Annick Guiseppi, Alexei Sorokin, François Denizot
Characterization of the Bacillus subtilis YxdJ response regulator as the inducer of expression for the cognate ABC transporter YxdLM.
Microbiology (Reading): 2004, 150(Pt 8);2609-2617
[PubMed:15289557] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Ken-Ichi Yoshida, Izumi Ishio, Eishi Nagakawa, Yoshiyuki Yamamoto, Mami Yamamoto, Yasutaro Fujita
Systematic study of gene expression and transcription organization in the gntZ-ywaA region of the Bacillus subtilis genome.
Microbiology (Reading): 2000, 146 ( Pt 3);573-579
[PubMed:10746760] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

C Fabret, V A Feher, J A Hoch
Two-component signal transduction in Bacillus subtilis: how one organism sees its world.
J Bacteriol: 1999, 181(7);1975-83
[PubMed:10094672] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)