Table 3.
Candidates for uncharacterized sporulation genes among genes conserved in endospore-forming bacteria
| Gene | No. of orthologs in: |
Predicted product | |
|---|---|---|---|
| All bacteria/archaeaa | Bacillaceae/Clostridiab | ||
| bkdR | 87 | 43 | DNA-binding transcriptional regulator |
| buk | 62 | 34 | Butyrate kinase |
| ylmC | 45 | 45 | Hypothetical protein; PRC barrel domain |
| ymxH | 25 | 25 | Hypothetical protein; PRC barrel domain |
| ylxY | 42 | 38 | Polysaccharide deacetylase |
| ylzA | 73 | 43 | Hypothetical protein |
| ymfB | 44 | 44 | ClpP-like protease |
| yteA | 51 (33)c | 41 (23) | DksA-like regulator |
| ylyA | 11 (29) | 11 (29) | DksA-like regulator |
a
626 bacterial and archaeal genomes were considered.
b
46 Bacillus and Clostridia genomes were considered.
c
The numbers in parentheses are the numbers of orthologs for yteA and ylyA corrected for similarity in gene synteny with B. subtilis ylyA.