XepA

• Description: PBSX prophage lytic exoenzyme
  
  

Gene name	xepA
Synonyms	xkdY
Essential	no
Product	PBSX prophage lytic exoenzyme
Function	phage release
Gene expression levels in SubtiExpress: xepA
MW, pI	30 kDa, 5.424
Gene length, protein length	837 bp, 279 aa
Immediate neighbours	xkdX, xhlA
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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Expression at a glance   PubMed

Categories containing this gene/protein

cell wall degradation/ turnover, PBSX prophage

The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU12780

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: no entry

• SubtiList entry: [1]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

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Extended information on the protein

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• Localization:
  • extracellular (no signal peptide) PubMed

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: P39797

• KEGG entry: [2]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon:

• Expression browser: xepA PubMed

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Biological materials

• Mutant:

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• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

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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)

S Krogh, S T Jørgensen, K M Devine
Lysis genes of the Bacillus subtilis defective prophage PBSX.
J Bacteriol: 1998, 180(8);2110-7
[PubMed:9555893] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

P F Longchamp, C Mauël, D Karamata
Lytic enzymes associated with defective prophages of Bacillus subtilis: sequencing and characterization of the region comprising the N-acetylmuramoyl-L-alanine amidase gene of prophage PBSX.
Microbiology (Reading): 1994, 140 ( Pt 8);1855-67
[PubMed:7921239] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)