Type: | Family | Name: | Regulatory protein Spx |
Description: | This entry represents bacterial regulatory protein spx. This protein acts as an "anti-alpha" factor and interacts with the RNA polymerase alpha subunit C-terminal domain. RNA polymerase is therefore prevented from responding to certain activator proteins such as ResD and ComA []. Spx is a negative regulator of competence []. It was previously known as YjbD []. | Short Name: | Spx |