DivIC

• Description: cell-division initiation protein (septum formation), component of septosome (with DivIB)
  
  

Gene name	divIC
Synonyms
Essential	yes PubMed
Product	cell-division protein
Function	septum formation
MW, pI	14 kDa, 9.968
Gene length, protein length	375 bp, 125 aa
Immediate neighbours	yabQ, yabR
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag:

Phenotypes of a mutant

essential PubMed

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: DivIC-FtsL

• Localization: membrane bound PubMed

Database entries

• Structure:

• Swiss prot entry: P37471

• KEGG entry: BSU00620

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon:

• Sigma factor: SigM PubMed

• Regulation:

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information: there are about 50,000 molecules of DivIC per cell PubMed

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Scott A Robson, Katharine A Michie, Joel P Mackay, Elizabeth Harry, Glenn F King
The Bacillus subtilis cell division proteins FtsL and DivIC are intrinsically unstable and do not interact with one another in the absence of other septasomal components.
Mol Microbiol: 2002, 44(3);663-74
[PubMed:11994149] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

J Sievers, J Errington
The Bacillus subtilis cell division protein FtsL localizes to sites of septation and interacts with DivIC.
Mol Microbiol: 2000, 36(4);846-55
[PubMed:10844672] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

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