Vpr

• Description: minor extracellular serine protease
  
  

Gene name	vpr
Synonyms	ipa-45r
Essential	no
Product	minor extracellular serine protease
Function	protein degradation
Gene expression levels in SubtiExpress: vpr
MW, pI	85 kDa, 5.773
Gene length, protein length	2418 bp, 806 aa
Immediate neighbours	ywcI, ywcH
Sequences	Protein DNA DNA_with_flanks
Genetic context This image was kindly provided by SubtiList
Expression at a glance   PubMed

Categories containing this gene/protein

utilization of nitrogen sources other than amino acids, proteolysis

This gene is a member of the following regulons

CodY regulon, LexA regulon, PhoP regulon

The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU38090

Database entries

• BsubCyc: BSU38090

• 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:

• Cofactors:

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:

• Localization:
  • extracellular (signal peptide) PubMed

Database entries

• BsubCyc: BSU38090

• Structure:

• UniProt: P29141

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: vpr PubMed

• Expression browser: vpr PubMed

• Sigma factor:

• Regulation:
  • expressed under conditions of phosphate limitation (PhoP) PubMed
  • repressed when no DNA damage is present (LexA) PubMed
  • repressed during growth in the presence of branched chain amino acids (CodY) PubMed

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

• Additional information:
  • number of protein molecules per cell (minimal medium with glucose and ammonium, exponential phase): 248 PubMed
  • number of protein molecules per cell (minimal medium with glucose and ammonium, early stationary phase after glucose exhaustion): 175 PubMed
  • number of protein molecules per cell (minimal medium with glucose and ammonium, late stationary phase after glucose exhaustion): 224 PubMed

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Reviews

Massimiliano Marvasi, Pieter T Visscher, Lilliam Casillas Martinez
Exopolymeric substances (EPS) from Bacillus subtilis: polymers and genes encoding their synthesis.
FEMS Microbiol Lett: 2010, 313(1);1-9
[PubMed:20735481] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Original publications

Giulia Barbieri, Birgit Voigt, Dirk Albrecht, Michael Hecker, Alessandra M Albertini, Abraham L Sonenshein, Eugenio Ferrari, Boris R Belitsky
CodY regulates expression of the Bacillus subtilis extracellular proteases Vpr and Mpr.
J Bacteriol: 2015, 197(8);1423-32
[PubMed:25666135] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Susanne Pohl, Gaurav Bhavsar, Joanne Hulme, Alexandra E Bloor, Goksel Misirli, Matthew W Leckenby, David S Radford, Wendy Smith, Anil Wipat, E Diane Williamson, Colin R Harwood, Rocky M Cranenburgh
Proteomic analysis of Bacillus subtilis strains engineered for improved production of heterologous proteins.
Proteomics: 2013, 13(22);3298-308
[PubMed:24115457] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

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)