DegR

• Description: regulation of degradative enzyme production
  
  

Gene name	degR
Synonyms	prtR
Essential	no
Product	positive effector of DegU-phosphate stability
Function	control of DegU activity
MW, pI	6 kDa, 5.158
Gene length, protein length	180 bp, 60 aa
Immediate neighbours	cspD, ypzA
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU21940

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

Categories containing this gene/protein

transcription factors and their control

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family:

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:

• Localization: cytoplasm (according to Swiss-Prot)

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: P68731

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: degR PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigD PubMed

• Regulation:

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

M Ogura, Y Ohshiro, S Hirao, T Tanaka
A new Bacillus subtilis gene, med, encodes a positive regulator of comK.
J Bacteriol: 1997, 179(20);6244-53
[PubMed:9335269] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

M Ogura, T Tanaka
Bacillus subtilis ComK negatively regulates degR gene expression.
Mol Gen Genet: 1997, 254(2);157-65
[PubMed:9108277] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

M Ogura, T Tanaka
Transcription of Bacillus subtilis degR is sigma D dependent and suppressed by multicopy proB through sigma D.
J Bacteriol: 1996, 178(1);216-22
[PubMed:8550420] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

K Mukai, M Kawata-Mukai, T Tanaka
Stabilization of phosphorylated Bacillus subtilis DegU by DegR.
J Bacteriol: 1992, 174(24);7954-62
[PubMed:1459944] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

M Yang, H Shimotsu, E Ferrari, D J Henner
Characterization and mapping of the Bacillus subtilis prtR gene.
J Bacteriol: 1987, 169(1);434-7
[PubMed:3098734] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Y Nagami, T Tanaka
Molecular cloning and nucleotide sequence of a DNA fragment from Bacillus natto that enhances production of extracellular proteases and levansucrase in Bacillus subtilis.
J Bacteriol: 1986, 166(1);20-8
[PubMed:3082853] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)