SppA

• Description: signal peptide peptidase required for efficient processing of pre-proteins
  
  

Gene name	sppA
Synonyms	yteI
Essential	no
Product	signal peptide peptidase
Function	protein secretion
MW, pI	36 kDa, 7.314
Gene length, protein length	1005 bp, 335 aa
Immediate neighbours	yteJ, ytdI
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU29530

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

Categories containing this gene/protein

protein secretion, cell envelope stress proteins (controlled by SigM, W, X, Y), membrane proteins

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family: peptidase S49 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: cell membrane (according to Swiss-Prot)

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: O34525

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: sppA-yteJ PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigW PubMed

• Regulation:
  • induced in response to cell wall stress (SigW) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody: