GerM

• Description: germination (cortex hydrolysis) and sporulation
  
  

Gene name	gerM
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	unknown
Function	germination (cortex hydrolysis) and sporulation
MW, pI	39 kDa, 4.683
Gene length, protein length	1098 bp, 366 aa
Immediate neighbours	rph, racE
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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Categories containing this gene/protein

germination

This gene is a member of the following regulons

SigE regulon

The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU28380

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family:

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:

• Localization:

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: P39072

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: gerM PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigE PubMed

• Regulation:
  • expressed early during sporulation in the mother cell (SigE, SpoIIID) PubMed
  • repressed by casamino acids PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • SpoIIID: transcription repression PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Daniel J Rigden, Michael Y Galperin
Sequence analysis of GerM and SpoVS, uncharacterized bacterial 'sporulation' proteins with widespread phylogenetic distribution.
Bioinformatics: 2008, 24(16);1793-7
[PubMed:18562273] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Leif Steil, Mónica Serrano, Adriano O Henriques, Uwe Völker
Genome-wide analysis of temporally regulated and compartment-specific gene expression in sporulating cells of Bacillus subtilis.
Microbiology (Reading): 2005, 151(Pt 2);399-420
[PubMed:15699190] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P 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)

Ulrike Mäder, Georg Homuth, Christian Scharf, Knut Büttner, Rüdiger Bode, Michael Hecker
Transcriptome and proteome analysis of Bacillus subtilis gene expression modulated by amino acid availability.
J Bacteriol: 2002, 184(15);4288-95
[PubMed:12107147] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

A Wipat, N Carter, S C Brignell, B J Guy, K Piper, J Sanders, P T Emmerson, C R Harwood
The dnaB-pheA (256 degrees-240 degrees) region of the Bacillus subtilis chromosome containing genes responsible for stress responses, the utilization of plant cell walls and primary metabolism.
Microbiology (Reading): 1996, 142 ( Pt 11);3067-78
[PubMed:8969504] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

G M Slynn, R L Sammons, D A Smith, A Moir, B M Corfe
Molecular genetical and phenotypical analysis of the gerM spore germination gene of Bacillus subtilis 168.
FEMS Microbiol Lett: 1994, 121(3);315-20
[PubMed:7926687] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)