WprA

• Description: secreted quality control protease
  
  

Gene name	wprA
Synonyms	yisM
Essential	no
Product	secreted quality control protease
Function	protein quality control
Gene expression levels in SubtiExpress: wprA
Interactions involving this protein in SubtInteract: WprA
MW, pI	96 kDa, 9.58
Gene length, protein length	2682 bp, 894 aa
Immediate neighbours	yisL, yisN
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

cell wall/ other, proteolysis,

This gene is a member of the following regulons

YvrHb regulon, CcpA regulon

The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU10770

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:
  • important for TatAY-TatCY-dependent export of YkuE and YwbN PubMed

• 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:
  • WprA-TatAY PubMed
  • WprA-TatCY PubMed

• Localization:
  • extracellular (signal peptide) PubMed
  • membrane PubMed
  • cell wall PubMed

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: P54423

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: wprA PubMed

• Expression browser: wprA PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigA PubMed

• Regulation:
  • repressed by glucose (CcpA) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • CcpA: transcription repression PubMed
  • YvrHb: transcription activation PubMed

• Additional information:
  • An antisense RNA is predicted forwprA PubMed
  • the amount of the mRNA is substantially decreased upon depletion of RNase Y PubMed

Biological materials

• Mutant:
  • 1A1021 ( wprA::kan), PubMed, available at BGSC

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Lehnik-Habrink M, Schaffer M, Mäder U, Diethmaier C, Herzberg C, Stülke J  
RNA processing in Bacillus subtilis: identification of targets of the essential RNase Y. 
Mol Microbiol. 2011 81(6): 1459-1473. 
PubMed:21815947