WprA

• Description: cell wall-associated protein precursor
  
  

Gene name	wprA
Synonyms	yisM
Essential	no
Product	cell wall-associated protein precursor
Function	unknown
MW, pI	96 kDa, 9.58
Gene length, protein length	2682 bp, 894 aa
Immediate neighbours	yisL, yisN
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU10770

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

Categories containing this gene/protein

cell wall/ other

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, membrane PubMed

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: P54423

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: wprA PubMed

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation:

• Regulatory mechanism: activated by YvrHb 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)

Hannes Hahne, Susanne Wolff, Michael Hecker, Dörte Becher
From complementarity to comprehensiveness--targeting the membrane proteome of growing Bacillus subtilis by divergent approaches.
Proteomics: 2008, 8(19);4123-36
[PubMed:18763711] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Masakuni Serizawa, Keisuke Kodama, Hiroki Yamamoto, Kazuo Kobayashi, Naotake Ogasawara, Junichi Sekiguchi
Functional analysis of the YvrGHb two-component system of Bacillus subtilis: identification of the regulated genes by DNA microarray and northern blot analyses.
Biosci Biotechnol Biochem: 2005, 69(11);2155-69
[PubMed:16306698] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

K Stephenson, C L Jensen, S T Jørgensen, C R Harwood
Simultaneous inactivation of the wprA and dltB genes of Bacillus subtilis reduces the yield of alpha-amylase.
Lett Appl Microbiol: 2002, 34(6);394-7
[PubMed:12028417] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Haike Antelmann, Hiroki Yamamoto, Junichi Sekiguchi, Michael Hecker
Stabilization of cell wall proteins in Bacillus subtilis: a proteomic approach.
Proteomics: 2002, 2(5);591-602
[PubMed:11987133] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

J H Hageman, R L Switzer
ISP-4 and CWBP52 are proteins encoded by the same gene in Bacillus subtilis.
Microbiology (Reading): 1999, 145 ( Pt 2);281
[PubMed:10075409] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

K Stephenson, C R Harwood
Influence of a cell-wall-associated protease on production of alpha-amylase by Bacillus subtilis.
Appl Environ Microbiol: 1998, 64(8);2875-81
[PubMed:9687444] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

P Margot, D Karamata
The wprA gene of Bacillus subtilis 168, expressed during exponential growth, encodes a cell-wall-associated protease.
Microbiology (Reading): 1996, 142 ( Pt 12);3437-44
[PubMed:9004506] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)