DnaJ

• Description: heat-shock protein (activation of DnaK)
  
  

Gene name	dnaJ
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	heat-shock protein (activation of DnaK)
Function	protein quality control
Metabolic function and regulation of this protein in SubtiPathways: Stress
MW, pI	40 kDa, 7.92
Gene length, protein length	1116 bp, 372 aa
Immediate neighbours	yqeT, surC
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU25460

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family: dnaJ family (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions: DnaK-DnaJ

• Localization: cytoplasm (according to Swiss-Prot)

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: P17631

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: hrcA-grpE-dnaK-dnaJ-yqeT-yqeU-yqeV PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigA PubMed

• Regulation:
  • induced by heat shock (HrcA) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • HrcA: transcription repression PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

Labs working on this gene/protein

Wolfgang Schumann, Bayreuth University, Germany Homepage

References

G Homuth, A Mogk, W Schumann
Post-transcriptional regulation of the Bacillus subtilis dnaK operon.
Mol Microbiol: 1999, 32(6);1183-97
[PubMed:10383760] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

G Homuth, S Masuda, A Mogk, Y Kobayashi, W Schumann
The dnaK operon of Bacillus subtilis is heptacistronic.
J Bacteriol: 1997, 179(4);1153-64
[PubMed:9023197] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

G Yuan, S L Wong
Isolation and characterization of Bacillus subtilis groE regulatory mutants: evidence for orf39 in the dnaK operon as a repressor gene in regulating the expression of both groE and dnaK.
J Bacteriol: 1995, 177(22);6462-8
[PubMed:7592421] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

M Wetzstein, U Völker, J Dedio, S Löbau, U Zuber, M Schiesswohl, C Herget, M Hecker, W Schumann
Cloning, sequencing, and molecular analysis of the dnaK locus from Bacillus subtilis.
J Bacteriol: 1992, 174(10);3300-10
[PubMed:1339421] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)