LigD

• Description: confers dry-heat resistance to dormant spores PubMed, similar to ATP-dependent DNA ligase
  
  

Gene name	ykoU
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	unknown
Function	confers dry-heat resistance to dormant spores
MW, pI	70 kDa, 6.646
Gene length, protein length	1833 bp, 611 aa
Immediate neighbours	ykoT, ykoV
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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Categories containing this gene/protein

sporulation proteins

This gene is a member of the following regulons

SigG regulon

The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU13400

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: no entry

• SubtiList entry: [1]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

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• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

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Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: O34398

• KEGG entry: [2]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: ykoV-ykoU PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigG PubMed

• Regulation: expressed during sporulation in the forespore (SigG) PubMed

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Biological materials

• Mutant:

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• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

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References

Stephanie T Wang, Barbara Setlow, Erin M Conlon, Jessica L Lyon, Daisuke Imamura, Tsutomu Sato, Peter Setlow, Richard Losick, Patrick Eichenberger
The forespore line of gene expression in Bacillus subtilis.
J Mol Biol: 2006, 358(1);16-37
[PubMed:16497325] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)