LonB

• Description: Lon-like ATP-dependent protease
  
  

Gene name	lonB
Synonyms	ysxF
Essential	no
Product	Lon-like ATP-dependent protease
Function	protein quality control
MW, pI	60 kDa, 6.272
Gene length, protein length	1656 bp, 552 aa
Immediate neighbours	lonA, clpX
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
Genetic context This image was kindly provided by SubtiList
Expression at a glance   PubMed

Categories containing this gene/protein

proteolysis, sporulation proteins, membrane proteins

This gene is a member of the following regulons

SigF regulon

The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU28210

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family: peptidase S16 family (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:
• Interactions:

• Localization:
  • localized to the forespore membrane early in development, followed by localization throughout the forespore later in development PubMed

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: P42425

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: lonB PubMed

• Expression browser: lonB PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigF PubMed

• Regulation:
  • expressed early during sporulation in the forespore (SigF) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Lyle A Simmons, Alan D Grossman, Graham C Walker
Clp and Lon proteases occupy distinct subcellular positions in Bacillus subtilis.
J Bacteriol: 2008, 190(20);6758-68
[PubMed:18689473] [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)

M Serrano, S Hövel, C P Moran, A O Henriques, U Völker
Forespore-specific transcription of the lonB gene during sporulation in Bacillus subtilis.
J Bacteriol: 2001, 183(10);2995-3003
[PubMed:11325926] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

E Krüger, M Hecker
The first gene of the Bacillus subtilis clpC operon, ctsR, encodes a negative regulator of its own operon and other class III heat shock genes.
J Bacteriol: 1998, 180(24);6681-8
[PubMed:9852015] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)