YfkM

• Description: general stress protein, survival of salt and ethanol stresses
  
  

Gene name	yfkM
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	unknown
Function	survival of salt and ethanol stresses
MW, pI	18 kDa, 4.722
Gene length, protein length	516 bp, 172 aa
Immediate neighbours	yfkN, yfkL
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU07850

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family: PfpI endopeptidase domain (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s): YraA

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:

• Localization:

Database entries

• Structure:

• Swiss prot entry: P80876

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon:

• Sigma factor: SigB PubMed

• Regulation: induced by stress (SigB) PubMed
  • repressed unless the cells enter an iron starvation (Fur) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • Fur: transcription repression PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody: