YfmS

• Description: soluble chemotaxis receptor
  
  

Gene name	yfmS
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	soluble chemotaxis receptor
Function	control of chemotaxis
MW, pI	30 kDa, 4.527
Gene length, protein length	858 bp, 286 aa
Immediate neighbours	yfmT, yfmR
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
Genetic context This image was kindly provided by SubtiList

Categories containing this gene/protein

motility and chemotaxis

This gene is a member of the following regulons

SigD regulon

The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU07360

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:
  • forms clusters at the cell poles PubMed

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: O06477

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: yfmT-yfmS PubMed

• Expression browser: yfmS PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigD PubMed

• Regulation:

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information:
  • in minimal medium, YfmS is present with 4,200 +/- 800 molecules per cell PubMed

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Vincent J Cannistraro, George D Glekas, Christopher V Rao, George W Ordal
Cellular stoichiometry of the chemotaxis proteins in Bacillus subtilis.
J Bacteriol: 2011, 193(13);3220-7
[PubMed:21515776] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Masakuni Serizawa, Hiroki Yamamoto, Hirotake Yamaguchi, Yasutaro Fujita, Kazuo Kobayashi, Naotake Ogasawara, Junichi Sekiguchi
Systematic analysis of SigD-regulated genes in Bacillus subtilis by DNA microarray and Northern blotting analyses.
Gene: 2004, 329;125-36
[PubMed:15033535] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Hiroki Yamamoto, Shigeki Uchiyama, Fajar Aji Nugroho, Junichi Sekiguchi
A 23.4 kb segment at the 69 degrees-70 degrees region of the Bacillus subtilis genome.
Microbiology (Reading): 1997, 143 ( Pt 4);1317-1320
[PubMed:9141694] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)