AprE

• Description: extracellular alkaline serine protease (subtilisin E)
  
  

Gene name	aprE
Synonyms	sprE
Essential	no
Product	extracellular alkaline serine protease (subtilisin E))
Function	protein degradation
MW, pI	39 kDa, 9.342
Gene length, protein length	1143 bp, 381 aa
Immediate neighbours	yhfN, yhfO
Gene sequence (+200bp)	Protein sequence
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The gene

Basic information

• Coordinates:

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

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• Protein family:

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

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• Modification:

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• Interactions:

• Localization: extracellular (signal peptide) PubMed

Database entries

• Structure:

• Swiss prot entry:

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon:

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation:

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• Additional information: the mRNA is extremely stable (more than 25 min) PubMed

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

1. Voigt et al. (2009) Cell physiology and protein secretion of Bacillus licheniformis compared to Bacillus subtilis. J Mol Microbiol Biotechnol. 16: 53-68 PubMed
2. Hambraeus, G., Persson, M. & Rutberg, B. (2000). The aprE leader is a determinant of extreme mRNA stability in Bacillus subtilis. Microbiology 146, 3051-3059. PubMed
3. Hambraeus, G., Karhumaa, K. & Rutberg, B. (2002). A 5' stem-loop and ribosome binding but not translation are important for the stability of Bacillus subtilis aprE leader mRNA. Microbiology 148, 1795-1803. PubMed
4. Author1, Author2 & Author3 (year) Title Journal volume: page-page. PubMed