ClpP

• Description: ATP-dependent Clp protease proteolytic subunit (class III heat-shock protein)
  
  

Gene name	clpP
Synonyms	yvdN
Essential	no
Product	ATP-dependent Clp protease proteolytic subunit
Function	protein degradation
MW, pI	21 kDa, 5.008
Gene length, protein length	591 bp, 197 aa
Immediate neighbours	trnQ-Arg, pgcM
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
Genetic context This image was kindly provided by SubtiList

The gene

Basic information

• Coordinates:

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

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: cytoplasmic polar clusters, excluded from the nucleoid, induced clustering upon heatshock, colocalization with ClpX, ClpC and ClpE

Database entries

• Structure:

• Swiss prot entry:

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon:

• Sigma factor: SigB PubMed

• Regulation: induced by stress (SigB) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant: clpP::spec and clpP::cat available from the Hamoen Lab Subtiwiki

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion: C-terminal GFP fusions (both single copy and 2th copy in amyE locus, also as CFP and YFP variants) available from the Hamoen Lab Subtiwiki

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

Labs working on this gene/protein

Leendert Hamoen, Newcastle University, UK homepage

References

1. Petersohn et al. (2001) Global Analysis of the General Stress Response of Bacillus subtilis. J Bacteriol. 183: 5617-5631 PubMed
2. Kock H, Gerth U, Hecker M. (2004) MurAA, catalysing the first committed step in peptidoglycan biosynthesis, is a target of Clp-dependent proteolysis in Bacillus subtilis. Mol Microbiol, 51:1087-1102. PubMed
3. Gerth, U., Krüger, E., Derré, I., Msadek, T. and Hecker, M. 1998. Stress induction of the Bacillus subtilis clpP gene encoding a homologue of the proteolytic component of the ClpP protease and the involvement of ClpP and ClpX in stress tolerance. Mol. Microbiol. 28: 787-802. PubMed
4. Kirstein, J., Strahl, H., Molière, N., Hamoen, LW., Turgay K. (2008) Localization of general and regulatory proteolysis in Bacillus subtilis cells. Mol Microbiol. 70:682-94. Pubmed
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