PrsW

• Description: protease, cleaves RsiW in the presence of antimicrobial peptides
  
  

Gene name	prsW
Synonyms	ypdC
Essential	no
Product	protease
Function	control of SigW activity
Gene expression levels in SubtiExpress: prsW
Interactions involving this protein in SubtInteract: PrsW
MW, pI	24 kDa, 8.085
Gene length, protein length	654 bp, 218 aa
Immediate neighbours	sleB, ypdA
Sequences	Protein DNA DNA_with_flanks
Genetic context This image was kindly provided by SubtiList
Expression at a glance   PubMed

Categories containing this gene/protein

proteolysis, sigma factors and their control, membrane proteins

The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU22940

Database entries

• BsubCyc: BSU22940

• DBTBS entry: no entry

• SubtiList entry: [1]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family: protease prsW family (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:
  • PrsW-RsiW PubMed

• Localization: membrane PubMed

Database entries

• BsubCyc: BSU22940

• Structure:

• UniProt: P50738

• KEGG entry: [2]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon:

• Expression browser: prsW PubMed

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation:

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

Labs working on this gene/protein

Thomas Wiegert, University of Bayreuth, Germany Homepage

References

Reviews

Noël Molière, Kürşad Turgay
General and regulatory proteolysis in Bacillus subtilis.
Subcell Biochem: 2013, 66;73-103
[PubMed:23479438] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Ross E Dalbey, Peng Wang, Jan Maarten van Dijl
Membrane proteases in the bacterial protein secretion and quality control pathway.
Microbiol Mol Biol Rev: 2012, 76(2);311-30
[PubMed:22688815] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Theresa D Ho, Craig D Ellermeier
Extra cytoplasmic function σ factor activation.
Curr Opin Microbiol: 2012, 15(2);182-8
[PubMed:22381678] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Original publications

Jessica C Zweers, Pierre Nicolas, Thomas Wiegert, Jan Maarten van Dijl, Emma L Denham
Definition of the σ(W) regulon of Bacillus subtilis in the absence of stress.
PLoS One: 2012, 7(11);e48471
[PubMed:23155385] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Janine Heinrich, Kerstin Hein, Thomas Wiegert
Two proteolytic modules are involved in regulated intramembrane proteolysis of Bacillus subtilis RsiW.
Mol Microbiol: 2009, 74(6);1412-26
[PubMed:19889088] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Janine Heinrich, Thomas Wiegert
YpdC determines site-1 degradation in regulated intramembrane proteolysis of the RsiW anti-sigma factor of Bacillus subtilis.
Mol Microbiol: 2006, 62(2);566-79
[PubMed:17020587] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Craig D Ellermeier, Richard Losick
Evidence for a novel protease governing regulated intramembrane proteolysis and resistance to antimicrobial peptides in Bacillus subtilis.
Genes Dev: 2006, 20(14);1911-22
[PubMed:16816000] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)