YlmC

• Description: sporulation protein
  
  

Gene name	ylmC
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	sporulation protein
Function	unknown
Gene expression levels in SubtiExpress: ylmC
MW, pI	8 kDa, 5.635
Gene length, protein length	243 bp, 81 aa
Immediate neighbours	ylmB, ylmD
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
Genetic context This image was kindly provided by SubtiList
Expression at a glance   PubMed

Categories containing this gene/protein

sporulation proteins

This gene is a member of the following regulons

SigE regulon, SpoIIID regulon

The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU15360

Phenotypes of a mutant

• a ylmC ymxH double mutant has a severe sporulation defect (1% sporulation as compared to the wild type or single mutants), the block is at stage III of sporulation PubMed

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: no entry

• SubtiList entry: [1]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family:

• Paralogous protein(s): YmxH

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:

• Localization:

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: O31725

• KEGG entry: [2]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon:

• Expression browser: ylmC PubMed

• Sigma factor:

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

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • SpoIIID: transcrition repression PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Ana B Abecasis, Mónica Serrano, Renato Alves, Leonor Quintais, José B Pereira-Leal, Adriano O Henriques
A genomic signature and the identification of new sporulation genes.
J Bacteriol: 2013, 195(9);2101-15
[PubMed:23396918] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Bjorn A Traag, Antonia Pugliese, Jonathan A Eisen, Richard Losick
Gene conservation among endospore-forming bacteria reveals additional sporulation genes in Bacillus subtilis.
J Bacteriol: 2013, 195(2);253-60
[PubMed:23123912] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)