Germination

Parent categories	4. Lifestyles 4.2. Sporulation and Germination
Neighbouring categories	4.2.1. Sporulation proteins 4.2.2. Phosphorelay 4.2.3. Sporulation/ other 4.2.4. Germination
Related categories	SigK regulon GerE regulon germinosome
Overview on the categories (Excel file) All genes and their categories (Excel file)

Genes in this functional category

Germinant receptors

• gerAA
• gerAB
• gerAC
• gerBA
• gerBB
• gerBC
• gerKA
• gerKB
• gerKC

Additional germination proteins

• csgA
• cwlD
• cwlJ
• gdh
• gerD
• gerE
• gerM
• gerPA
• gerPB
• gerPC
• gerPD
• gerPE
• gerPF
• gerQ
• gerT
• gpr
• lgt
• lipC
• pdaA
• prkC
• sleB
• spoVAD
• spoVAEA
• spoVAEB
• ykvU
• ynzB
• ypeB
• ywcE

Additional candidates (based on similarity)

• yfkQ
• yfkR
• yfkS
• yfkT
• yndD
• yndE
• yndF

Important original publications

Rachna Pandey, Alex Ter Beek, Norbert O E Vischer, Jan P P M Smelt, Stanley Brul, Erik M M Manders
Live cell imaging of germination and outgrowth of individual bacillus subtilis spores; the effect of heat stress quantitatively analyzed with SporeTracker.
PLoS One: 2013, 8(3);e58972
[PubMed:23536843] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Kerry-Ann V Stewart, Xuan Yi, Sonali Ghosh, Peter Setlow
Germination protein levels and rates of germination of spores of Bacillus subtilis with overexpressed or deleted genes encoding germination proteins.
J Bacteriol: 2012, 194(12);3156-64
[PubMed:22493018] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Important reviews

Jonathan Dworkin, Ishita M Shah
Exit from dormancy in microbial organisms.
Nat Rev Microbiol: 2010, 8(12);890-6
[PubMed:20972452] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

A Moir
How do spores germinate?
J Appl Microbiol: 2006, 101(3);526-30
[PubMed:16907803] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Peter Setlow
Spore germination.
Curr Opin Microbiol: 2003, 6(6);550-6
[PubMed:14662349] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

A Moir, B M Corfe, J Behravan
Spore germination.
Cell Mol Life Sci: 2002, 59(3);403-9
[PubMed:11964118] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)