DnaK

• Description: class I heat-shock protein (molecular chaperone)
  
  

Gene name	dnaK
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	class I heat-shock protein (molecular chaperone)
Function	protein quality control
Gene expression levels in SubtiExpress: dnaK
Interactions involving this protein in SubtInteract: DnaK
Metabolic function and regulation of this protein in SubtiPathways: Stress
MW, pI	65 kDa, 4.571
Gene length, protein length	1833 bp, 611 aa
Immediate neighbours	surC, grpE
Sequences	Protein DNA DNA_with_flanks
Genetic context This image was kindly provided by SubtiList
Expression at a glance   PubMed

Categories containing this gene/protein

chaperones/ protein folding, heat shock proteins, phosphoproteins

This gene is a member of the following regulons

HrcA regulon

The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU25470

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family: heat shock protein 70 family (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification: phosphorylated on ser/ thr/ tyr PubMed

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:
  • DnaK-DnaJ

• Localization:
  • cytoplasm (according to Swiss-Prot)
  • membrane-proximal (Spotty) PubMed
  • recruited to the membrane after ethanol stress PubMed

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: P17820

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

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

• Expression browser: dnaK 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: B. pertussis adenylate cyclase-based bacterial two hybrid system (BACTH), available in Stülke lab

• Antibody:

Labs working on this gene/protein

Wolfgang Schumann, Bayreuth University, Germany Homepage

References

Additional publications: PubMed

Christine Eymann, Dörte Becher, Jörg Bernhardt, Katrin Gronau, Anja Klutzny, Michael Hecker
Dynamics of protein phosphorylation on Ser/Thr/Tyr in Bacillus subtilis.
Proteomics: 2007, 7(19);3509-26
[PubMed:17726680] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Jean-Christophe Meile, Ling Juan Wu, S Dusko Ehrlich, Jeff Errington, Philippe Noirot
Systematic localisation of proteins fused to the green fluorescent protein in Bacillus subtilis: identification of new proteins at the DNA replication factory.
Proteomics: 2006, 6(7);2135-46
[PubMed:16479537] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Dindo Y Reyes, Hirofumi Yoshikawa
DnaK chaperone machine and trigger factor are only partially required for normal growth of Bacillus subtilis.
Biosci Biotechnol Biochem: 2002, 66(7);1583-6
[PubMed:12224648] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

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)

A Schulz, B Tzschaschel, W Schumann
Isolation and analysis of mutants of the dnaK operon of Bacillus subtilis.
Mol Microbiol: 1995, 15(3);421-9
[PubMed:7540247] [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)