McsB

• Description: protein arginine kinase, modulator of CtsR-dependent repression
  
  

Gene name	mcsB
Synonyms	yacI
Essential	no
Product	protein arginine kinase
Function	control of CtsR activity
Metabolic function and regulation of this protein in SubtiPathways: Stress
MW, pI	40 kDa, 5.068
Gene length, protein length	1089 bp, 363 aa
Immediate neighbours	mcsA, clpC
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU00850

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

Categories containing this gene/protein

protein modification, transcription factors and their control, sporulation proteins, general stress proteins (controlled by SigB), heat shock proteins

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: targets non-functional CtsR for degradation by ClpP/ClpC PubMed

• Protein family: ATP:guanido phosphotransferase family (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification: autophosphorylation PubMed, dephosphorylation by YwlE PubMed

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:
  • McsA-McsB-CtsR, McsB-CtsR PubMed, McsA-McsB
  • McsB-YwlE PubMed
  • McsB-ClpP/ClpC (rapid degradation of non-phosphorylated McsB) PubMed

• Localization:

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: P37570

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: ctsR-mcsA-mcsB-clpC-radA-disA PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigA PubMed, SigB PubMed1 PubMed2, SigF PubMed

• Regulation:
  • expressed early during sporulation in the forespore (SigF) PubMed
  • induced by stress (SigB) PubMed
  • induced by heat (CtsR) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • CtsR: transcription repression PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Reviews

PubMed

Original Publications

Alexander K W Elsholz, Stephan Michalik, Daniela Zühlke, Michael Hecker, Ulf Gerth
CtsR, the Gram-positive master regulator of protein quality control, feels the heat.
EMBO J: 2010, 29(21);3621-9
[PubMed:20852588] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Jeanette Hahn, Naomi Kramer, Kenneth Briley, David Dubnau
McsA and B mediate the delocalization of competence proteins from the cell poles of Bacillus subtilis.
Mol Microbiol: 2009, 72(1);202-15
[PubMed:19226326] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Stephanie T Wang, Barbara Setlow, Erin M Conlon, Jessica L Lyon, Daisuke Imamura, Tsutomu Sato, Peter Setlow, Richard Losick, Patrick Eichenberger
The forespore line of gene expression in Bacillus subtilis.
J Mol Biol: 2006, 358(1);16-37
[PubMed:16497325] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

A Petersohn, M Brigulla, S Haas, J D Hoheisel, U Völker, M Hecker
Global analysis of the general stress response of Bacillus subtilis.
J Bacteriol: 2001, 183(19);5617-31
[PubMed:11544224] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

E Krüger, D Zühlke, E Witt, H Ludwig, M Hecker
Clp-mediated proteolysis in Gram-positive bacteria is autoregulated by the stability of a repressor.
EMBO J: 2001, 20(4);852-63
[PubMed:11179229] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

I Derré, G Rapoport, T Msadek
CtsR, a novel regulator of stress and heat shock response, controls clp and molecular chaperone gene expression in gram-positive bacteria.
Mol Microbiol: 1999, 31(1);117-31
[PubMed:9987115] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

E Krüger, T Msadek, M Hecker
Alternate promoters direct stress-induced transcription of the Bacillus subtilis clpC operon.
Mol Microbiol: 1996, 20(4);713-23
[PubMed:8793870] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Additional publications: PubMed