Proteolysis

Parent categories	3. Information processing 3.3. Protein synthesis, modification and degradation
Neighbouring categories	3.3.1. Translation 3.3.2. Chaperones/ protein folding 3.3.3. Protein modification 3.3.4. Protein secretion 3.3.5. Proteolysis
Related categories	none
Overview on the categories (Excel file) All genes and their categories (Excel file)

Genes in this functional category

Protein quality control

• htrA
• htrB
• htrC
• wprA

Extracellular feeding proteases

• AprE and NprE account for 95% of extracellular proteolytic activity

• aprE
• bpr
• epr
• mpr
• nprB
• nprE
• vpr

• A mutant strain with deletions of all feeding proteases and the three major protein quality control proteases (htrA, htrB, wprA) (BRB14) is available in Colin Harwood's lab PubMed

Proteolysis during sporulation/ germination

• gpr
• tepA
• ylzJ
• spoIIGA
• spoIVFB

Additional proteins involved in proteolysis

• clpC
• clpE
• clpP
• clpQ
• clpX
• clpY
• ctpA
• ctpB
• ctsR
• ftsH
• htpX
• immA
• ipi
• ispA
• lonA
• lonB
• mecA
• mlpA
• prp
• prsW
• rasP

• yabG
• yirB
• yjbH
• ypbH
• ypwA
• yqgP
• yraA

Important reviews

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