Vpr

• Description: minor extracellular serine protease
  
  

Gene name	vpr
Synonyms	ipa-45r
Essential	no
Product	minor extracellular serine protease
Function	protein degradation
MW, pI	85 kDa, 5.773
Gene length, protein length	2418 bp, 806 aa
Immediate neighbours	ywcI, ywcH
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU38090

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family: peptidase S8 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: secreted (according to Swiss-Prot), extracellular (signal peptide) PubMed

Database entries

• Structure:

• Swiss prot entry: P29141

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon:

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation:
  • expressed under conditions of phosphate limitation (PhoP) PubMed
  • repressed when no DNA damage is present (LexA) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • PhoP: transcription activation PubMed
  • LexA: transcription repression PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Birgit Voigt, Haike Antelmann, Dirk Albrecht, Armin Ehrenreich, Karl-Heinz Maurer, Stefan Evers, Gerhard Gottschalk, Jan Maarten van Dijl, Thomas Schweder, Michael Hecker
Cell physiology and protein secretion of Bacillus licheniformis compared to Bacillus subtilis.
J Mol Microbiol Biotechnol: 2009, 16(1-2);53-68
[PubMed:18957862] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Nicholas E E Allenby, Nicola O'Connor, Zoltán Prágai, Alan C Ward, Anil Wipat, Colin R Harwood
Genome-wide transcriptional analysis of the phosphate starvation stimulon of Bacillus subtilis.
J Bacteriol: 2005, 187(23);8063-80
[PubMed:16291680] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Nora Au, Elke Kuester-Schoeck, Veena Mandava, Laura E Bothwell, Susan P Canny, Karen Chachu, Sierra A Colavito, Shakierah N Fuller, Eli S Groban, Laura A Hensley, Theresa C O'Brien, Amish Shah, Jessica T Tierney, Louise L Tomm, Thomas M O'Gara, Alexi I Goranov, Alan D Grossman, Charles M Lovett
Genetic composition of the Bacillus subtilis SOS system.
J Bacteriol: 2005, 187(22);7655-66
[PubMed:16267290] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

A Sloma, G A Rufo, C F Rudolph, B J Sullivan, K A Theriault, J Pero
Bacillopeptidase F of Bacillus subtilis: purification of the protein and cloning of the gene.
J Bacteriol: 1990, 172(3);1470-7
[PubMed:2106512] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

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. Author1, Author2 & Author3 (year) Title Journal volume: page-page. PubMed