Stage V sporulation protein T C-terminal, transcription factor
SpoVT_C is the C-terminal part of the stage V sporulation protein T, a transcription factor involved in endospore formation in Gram-positive bacteria such as Bacillus subtilis. Sporulation is induced by conditions of environmental stress to protect t ...
SpoVT_C is the C-terminal part of the stage V sporulation protein T, a transcription factor involved in endospore formation in Gram-positive bacteria such as Bacillus subtilis. Sporulation is induced by conditions of environmental stress to protect the genome. SpoVT behaves as a tetramer that shows an overall significant distortion mediated by electrostatic interactions. Two monomers dimerise via the highly charged N-terminal AbrB-like domains, family Pfam:PF04014, to form swapped-hairpin beta-barrels. These asymmetric dimers then form tetramers through the formation of mixed helix bundles between their C-terminal domains. The C-termini themselves fold as GAF (cGMP-specific and cGMP-stimulated phosphodiesterases, Anabaena adenylate cyclases, and Escherichia coli FhlA) domains [1].
AbrB-like is a family of small proteins that operate in conjunction with a cognate toxin molecule. The commonly attributed role of toxin-antitoxin systems is to maintain low-copy number plasmids from one generation to the next. Such gene-pairs are al ...
AbrB-like is a family of small proteins that operate in conjunction with a cognate toxin molecule. The commonly attributed role of toxin-antitoxin systems is to maintain low-copy number plasmids from one generation to the next. Such gene-pairs are also found on chromosomes and to be associated with a number of biological functions such as: reduction of protein synthesis, gene regulation and retardation of cell growth under nutritional stress [1]. This family includes proteins from a number of different pairings, eg MazE, AbrB, VapB [2], PhoU, PemI-like and SpoVT. MazE is the antidote to the toxin MazF of E. coli. MazE-MazF in E. coli is a regulated prokaryotic chromosomal addiction module. MazE antidote is degraded by the ClpPA protease of the bacterial proteasome. MazE-MazF is thought to play a role in programmed cell death when cells suffer nutrient deprivation [3], and MazE-MazF modules have also been implicated in the bacteriostatic effects of other addiction modules [3].
