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• Description: secreted peptide, controls LiaRS activity
  
  

Gene name	yydF
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	secreted peptide
Function	control of LiaRS activity
MW, pI	5 kDa, 9.567
Gene length, protein length	147 bp, 49 aa
Immediate neighbours	yydG, fbp
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU40180

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:

• Swiss prot entry:

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: yydF-yydG-yydH-yydI-yydJ PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigA PubMed

• Regulation: activated after transition to stationary phase(AbrB) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism: AbrB: transcription repression PubMed

• Additional information:
  • the mRNA is very stable (half-life > 15 min) PubMed
  • the yydF portion of the mRNA belongs to the most stable mRNAs in B. subtilis PubMed

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Bronwyn G Butcher, Yi-Pin Lin, John D Helmann
The yydFGHIJ operon of Bacillus subtilis encodes a peptide that induces the LiaRS two-component system.
J Bacteriol: 2007, 189(23);8616-25
[PubMed:17921301] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

1. Butcher BG, Lin YP, Helmann JD (2007) The yydFGHIJ operon of Bacillus subtilis encodes a peptide that induces the LiaRS two-component systemJ. Bacteriol 189: 8616-8625. PubMed
2. Author1, Author2 & Author3 (year) Title Journal volume: page-page. PubMed