SspH

• Description: small acid-soluble spore protein (minor)
  
  

Gene name	sspH
Synonyms	yfjU
Essential	no
Product	small acid-soluble spore protein (minor)
Function	protection of spore DNA
Gene expression levels in SubtiExpress: sspH
MW, pI	6 kDa, 4.462
Gene length, protein length	177 bp, 59 aa
Immediate neighbours	acoR, yfjF
Sequences	Protein DNA DNA_with_flanks
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

CcpA regulon, SigG regulon

The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU08110

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family: sspH family (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:

• Localization:
  • spore core (according to Swiss-Prot)

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: O31552

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon:
  • acoR-sspH PubMed
  • sspH PubMed

• Expression browser: sspH PubMed

• Sigma factor:
  • sspH: SigG PubMed

• Regulation:
  • repressed by glucose (3.7-fold) (CcpA) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • CcpA: transcription repression PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

A Cabrera-Hernandez, J L Sanchez-Salas, M Paidhungat, P Setlow
Regulation of four genes encoding small, acid-soluble spore proteins in Bacillus subtilis.
Gene: 1999, 232(1);1-10
[PubMed:10333516] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)