RasP

• Description: intramembrane protease, cleaves FtsL and RsiW
  
  

Gene name	rasP
Synonyms	yluC
Essential	no
Product	intramembrane protease
Function	control of cell division and SigW activity
MW, pI	46 kDa, 5.14
Gene length, protein length	1266 bp, 422 aa
Immediate neighbours	ispC, proS
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU16560

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: no entry

• SubtiList entry: [1]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: cleaves FtsL and RsiW

• Protein family: peptidase M50B family (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions: RasP-FtsL, RasP-RsiW

• Localization: cell membrane PubMed

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: O31754

• KEGG entry: [2]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon:

• 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

Reviews=

Gu Chen, Xu Zhang
New insights into S2P signaling cascades: regulation, variation, and conservation.
Protein Sci: 2010, 19(11);2015-30
[PubMed:20836086] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Original Publications

Inga Wadenpohl, Marc Bramkamp
DivIC stabilizes FtsL against RasP cleavage.
J Bacteriol: 2010, 192(19);5260-3
[PubMed:20644139] [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)

Hannes Hahne, Susanne Wolff, Michael Hecker, Dörte Becher
From complementarity to comprehensiveness--targeting the membrane proteome of growing Bacillus subtilis by divergent approaches.
Proteomics: 2008, 8(19);4123-36
[PubMed:18763711] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Janine Heinrich, Tuula Lundén, Vesa P Kontinen, Thomas Wiegert
The Bacillus subtilis ABC transporter EcsAB influences intramembrane proteolysis through RasP.
Microbiology (Reading): 2008, 154(Pt 7);1989-1997
[PubMed:18599827] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Marc Bramkamp, Louise Weston, Richard A Daniel, Jeff Errington
Regulated intramembrane proteolysis of FtsL protein and the control of cell division in Bacillus subtilis.
Mol Microbiol: 2006, 62(2);580-91
[PubMed:17020588] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Stephan Zellmeier, Wolfgang Schumann, Thomas Wiegert
Involvement of Clp protease activity in modulating the Bacillus subtilissigmaw stress response.
Mol Microbiol: 2006, 61(6);1569-82
[PubMed:16899079] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Susanne Schöbel, Stephan Zellmeier, Wolfgang Schumann, Thomas Wiegert
The Bacillus subtilis sigmaW anti-sigma factor RsiW is degraded by intramembrane proteolysis through YluC.
Mol Microbiol: 2004, 52(4);1091-105
[PubMed:15130127] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)