NprB

• Description: extracellular neutral protease B
  
  

Gene name	nprB
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	extracellular neutral protease B
Function	degradation of proteins
Gene expression levels in SubtiExpress: nprB
MW, pI	59 kDa, 5.322
Gene length, protein length	1614 bp, 538 aa
Immediate neighbours	yitR, yitS
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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Expression at a glance   PubMed

Categories containing this gene/protein

utilization of nitrogen sources other than amino acids

The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU11100

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: no entry

• SubtiList entry: [1]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: Similar, but not identical, to that of thermolysin (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Protein family: peptidase M4 family (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s): NprE

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:

• Localization:
  • secreted (according to Swiss-Prot)

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: P39899

• KEGG entry: [2]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon:

• Expression browser: nprB PubMed

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation:

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Reviews

Massimiliano Marvasi, Pieter T Visscher, Lilliam Casillas Martinez
Exopolymeric substances (EPS) from Bacillus subtilis: polymers and genes encoding their synthesis.
FEMS Microbiol Lett: 2010, 313(1);1-9
[PubMed:20735481] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)